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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. To streamline operations and control costs.

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Preparing for Re-entry into the Physical Workplace: Lessons from NASA

Michael Lee Stallard

Today, with the International Space Station in operation and anticipation of a multi-year human mission into deep space, protecting astronauts from the negative effects of disconnection and isolation has become an issue of greater interest to NASA scientists. These benefits add up to a powerful advantage. I should’ve eased into it.”.

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Becoming a Leader: Risky Business

CO2

Typically, when you operate inside of your comfort zone, you don’t experience risk nor do you develop the ability to evaluate risk when it is presented. Innovation suffers. The real secret lies in the deeply human need to direct our own lives, learn and create, and better ourselves and our world. Change ceases.

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Navigator Newsletter #180

Chart Your Course

By hiring the right people, they reduce turnover, training costs and insure their team of Zapponians stay motivated and passionate about what they do. According to their human resource department, it is harder to get a job at Zappos than to be accepted at Harvard Business School. People have a basic human need to feel appreciated.

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Brand Surgery ? excerpts from my Marketing Magazine article | In.

In the CEO Afterlife

The role has been relegated to middle managers who are brand custodians, not leaders in innovation. Through no fault of their own, they either lack the experience, the clout or the motivation to drive innovation into the brands they manage. A vast number of famous brand names need brand surgery. April 2011. March 2011.

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What Makes ABSOLUT, Absolute? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

I’m certain also, that on the emotional side, the concept has motivated brilliant creative people to find other breakthrough avenues of execution within the confines of the brand’s advertising tenets. Marketers operate in a dynamic world. Big on creativity and innovation – even created an ABSOLUT company to ensure focus.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

As adults, we don’t need to spend time digging in deeper to what we already know—we need to learn something new. It’s in the new that insights, ideas, and innovation comes from. If you’re operating as a know-it-all, you have an underlying belief that that any new stuff really isn’t of much value. What’s the downside?