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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. New technology will change the way we work. He was born in the U.K.

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What Kind of Innovator Are You?

Leading Blog

When it comes to innovation, it is no different. Jeff DeGraff writes in The Innovation Code , “ Your dominant worldview is your biggest strength —the quality that makes you stand out from other people.” DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage.

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That’s Not How We Do It Here!

Leading Blog

It is the story of Nadia bright and adventurous meerkat who is part of a mature clan with over 150 members. The story parallels the evolution of organizations of all types as they grow and mature. They begin to cope with their size by cementing in systems, structures and policies, that inadvertently kill speed, agility and innovation.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

The diversity across markets results in a mixture of backgrounds of different belief systems, habits, and perceptions that govern the behavior of local team members. A company with a robust value system that resonates with all employees and customers will draw more people to its product.

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The 6 Conditions Required to Scale a Creative Leadership Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

This means that companies are poised for even greater success when they scale their leadership, that is, when they grow leaders throughout the organization and align them into a collectively effective leadership system. These new organizational designs simply cannot boot up on the Reactive Operating System most leaders are running.

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Why Is Technology Not Producing Productivity Improvements?

The Horizons Tracker

The recent Global Innovation Index raised concerns that we’re leaving through a Solow redux, with considerable investments in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship failing to deliver the kind of productivity improvements that improve the lot of people across society. Official data reveals that while GDP grew by around 2.7%

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

Leading Blog

In this book, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. By closely monitoring these controls, we can maintain a healthy Risk Immune System that allows us to effectively anticipate, identify, analyze, and act upon the ever-present possibility that things will not go as planned.

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