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Leading to Disruptive Innovation

LDRLB

Disruptive innovation is no longer the exception, it’s the rule. In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Adaptive Planning. Savoring Surprise.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and go, the rules are changeable, and there is no defined endpoint. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P.

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Your Wake Up Pad

Steve Farber

of us are facing today, I thought it an opportune time to fire up our natural, built in, idea-generation instincts. Capture little idea-snapshots of natural, political, and social phenomena. Technorati Tags: innovation , leadership , problem solving , Wake Up Pad , WUP. Given the challenges many (most?)

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Does Diversity Actually Increase Creativity?

Harvard Business Review

Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. But is there actually any evidence in support of this idea? Jennifer Maravillas for HBR.

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Good Bosses Switch Between Two Leadership Styles

Harvard Business Review

If a marketing team is charged with creating an innovative new advertising campaign, for example, a prestigious leader can release the constraints on team members and encourage them to think outside the box. This creates a safe environment where team members feel respected and free to innovate and generate creative solutions.

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M-Prize Lessons and How to Get to Management 2.0

Harvard Business Review

Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. Here are just three lessons from our management innovators about leveraging social technologies to create truly social organizations: Trust your people with the future of the company. We announced the winners of the Management 2.0

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have had more than a few engagements that have come about as a result of the need to repair the carnage and devastation that occurred from the implementation of advice put forth, or the ideas generated by a well intentioned yet unqualified “coach”. Thanks for stopping by John. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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