LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too? Their reactivity drags down whatever innovations do arise, and it’s really too bad. Overcome orthodoxies.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

So to get the most out of innovation processes such as design thinking, truly creative leaders also need to master the social dynamics of… [wait for the punchline}…humor! We have witnessed that skilled leaders, those we call “Stand-Up Strategists”, understand the utility of humor to boost innovation.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too? Their reactivity drags down whatever innovations do arise, and it’s really too bad. Overcome orthodoxies.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 15, 2024

And, a father, a husband, and a wildly curious learner who is dedicated to ensuring iconic brands become iconic companies.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The reality is that creativity in your career environment is derived from both the need to solve a problem and the desire to avoid or solve future problems (which often leads to innovation). This is the essence of creativity, although it goes well beyond problem-solving. To be a wildly successful visionary, you must not fear creativity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 24, 2023

Future success and innovation require genuine conversation, even when it’s hard. If your good team’s results are the outcome of a deliberate strategy, well executed. Congratulations! Keep creating that clarity and focus on what matters most and support your team to get there.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 19, 2020

Most leaders want to lead an innovative organization. But as leaders, we can’t force innovation. We can’t mandate our people to be innovative. We can’t mandate our people to be innovative. And the longer people haven’t been innovative, the the more difficult it is to get them innovating again.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2017

It was the sidearm of choice for Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill Coty, “Bat” Masterson and Wild Bill Hickok. But, the backstory of the man behind the famous pistol is a portrait of an innovation leader in action. Innovation Leaders Relentlessly Traverse Challenge. Innovation Leaders are Resource Attractors.

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Decker Communication

AUGUST 3, 2023

Given the speed of AI-driven innovation, it’s clear that tech companies of all sizes are having a tough time getting their AI stories to resonate with buyers. AI is ushering in an era of untold innovation. All innovation – conceptual, technological, and everything in between – is ultimately a function of imagination.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Rising leaders might be testing the waters to see where they stand with you before tossing out a remarkably innovative idea or strategic question. Rising leaders may seem like they’re ready to run wild, but they might not actually know-how. What’s not being said in your meetings? Where is there room to roam?

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Trevor wanted his people to be pillars of innovation and creativity. When he came to me for coaching around innovation, he mentioned how fearful his team was in taking risks and possibly touching failure. It’s most fitting to celebrate failures related to innovation, rather than execution, Harvard Business Review points out.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 31, 2013

But, disruption “gone wild” destroys your capacity to build the future. People make fun of the “innovation of the […]. Change Leading Marks of leaders Taking others higher Innovation Leadership organizational success' Successful disruption: Disruption makes new futures possible.

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Building Personal Strength

MARCH 25, 2011

His drive to achieve in class and in sports kept him on mostly on track during the wild ride of his teen journey. He was busy "sowing wild oats," experimenting with drugs until he dropped out of high school. As his innovations came on line, management decided they didn't want to lose his talent, so they made him a vice-president.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Before they even get started down the path of innovation, they decide coming up with fresh ideas and/or securing funding isn’t in their wheelhouse. That family recipe people always ask you to bring came to life because someone decided to innovate along the way. You might be an entrepreneur after all if….

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 22, 2024

Whereas when the term was first coined, there were less than 40 unicorns, there are now reported to be around 2,500 in the wild. I argued that focusing on a $1 billion valuation distracted us, and indeed founders themselves, from developing the kind of profitable and sustainable businesses that ultimately benefit society.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Getting the most out of meetings is easy if you know how to effectively design them. One of the biggest black holes in workplace productivity is the poorly designed, poorly run meeting. No wonder 71 percent of senior managers view their companies’ meetings as unproductive and inefficient.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 31, 2018

That doesn’t mean that a river crossing couldn’t be constructed by non-experts and that it could be effective and innovative. ’ I am reflecting and considering the possibility that we need to listen to experts, consider laymen, embrace wild ideas and make our own disruptive choices.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

They create the openness, engagement, and collective thinking that drives innovation and greater business success. High-performing organizations take advantage of goal management to encourage cross-functional alignment and team contributions. There are five key pillars to goal management: Connected.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The fisherman’s wild gestures sent the tray smashing against the wall. The history of innovation is a long list of failures that eventually led to bigger successes. Accidental innovations and unplanned applications happen every day. Fear of failure is a huge killer of innovation and learning.

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Niagara Institute

MARCH 4, 2021

In reality, negotiating with suppliers or external partners, presenting a wildly innovative idea to the boss, or wrangling a team of peers with no defined leader, requires something much more powerful; and that’s influence. It doesn’t take a person long in their career to realize that one’s assigned formal title only gets them so far.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is a cofound VC-backed Butterfly Health that sells Butterfly body liners nationally.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 20, 2017

Most leaders want to lead an innovative organization. As leaders, we can’t force innovation. We can’t mandate innovative people. And, if our people haven’t been innovative in a while, then there may not be much innovation going on in our world. Great innovation comes from the gut.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 24, 2014

David Burkus is the author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas. David is Assistant Professor of Management at the College of Business at Oral Roberts University, where he teaches courses on leadership, creativity, strategy, and organizational behavior.

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leaderCommunicator

MAY 1, 2015

The One Thing Missing from Your Innovation Efforts: A View of Customers “In the Wild” By Jon Picoult ( @ JonPicoult ), Carrier Management “’Innovate or die,’ the saying goes. So whether you’re a new leader or an industry veteran there’ll be something here for you.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

A fantastic way to build up and into Millennials is to let them run wild in the fields of creativity. Spencer Johnson’s classic leadership fable, watch this 4 min.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is a co-founder of VC-backed Butterfly Health that sells Butterfly body liners nationally.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Rod Pyle is author of multiple best-selling books on space exploration and innovation for major publishers including Smithsonian, McGraw-Hill, HarperCollins, Prometheus/Random House, Sterling and Carlton.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Rod Pyle is author of multiple best-selling books on space exploration and innovation for major publishers including Smithsonian, McGraw-Hill, HarperCollins, Prometheus/Random House, Sterling and Carlton.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation. Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He hunted wild animals in Africa and, as a naturalist, started the U.S. ” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation. I knew his reputation for being a bit of a wild man. Authenticity creates trust; trust is a must-have ingredient in the risk-taking recipe required for innovation. Forestry Service.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 15, 2015

Michael Schrage is a Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Visiting Fellow at Imperial College’s Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He examines the various roles of models, prototypes, and simulations as collaborative media for innovation risk management.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 19, 2013

At the end of 2002 he started his own innovation organization to spread, train and facilitate the FORTH innovation […]. Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein and ECCI XII (Faro (2011).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation. Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 5, 2013

A globally recognized innovation leader and futurist, Lisa founded futurethink in 2003 to provide a simple approach to the otherwise complicated topic of innovation. She is also the author […].

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2012

The book is divided into five fundamental, make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead: values, innovation, adaptability, passion and ideology. Innovation Matters Now. Here are some of his thoughts that become more powerful as they sink in: Values Matter Now.

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