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Breaking Through | A New Frontier of Technology and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

Recently AI and blockchain have emerged as critical technologies in epidemic management by tracking the spread of COVID-19, managing insurance payments, maintaining medical supply chains, donation tracking pathways, and the vaccination roll-out. Innovation is doing new things.” – Theodore Levitt.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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Karl Ronn: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

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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Featured Leading Voice: Chip Bell

Lead Change Blog

” Following graduate school and the military (including a tour of duty as an infantry unit commander in Viet Nam) Chip was director of management and organizational development for NCNB (now Bank of America). He says, however, “The most important education for me has come from lessons learned in life, not academia!”

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Recommended Resources – Freakonomics

Strategy Driven

Levitt and. Levitt and Stephen J. Evaluation & Control Program Recommended Resources book review business book business management evaluation and control freakonomics Stephen Dubner Steven Levitt strategydriven' Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. by Steven D. About the Book.

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Its a Jungle In There

CEO Blog

But as I always say Leadership(Direction/Work on the right thing) before Management(efficiency). That is the thesis behind my Time Management book. Ive authored a Time Leadership Audio CD, book and eBook ; "How to use the Secrets of Leadership for Time Management".email Time is a substitute to efficiency. Worth reading.

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A Creative Way to “Fix” Incentives?

LDRLB

A team of economic researchers led by Harvard University’s Roland Fryer (and including Steven Levitt of Freakonomics fame) recently flipped the incentive model on its head and tested on one of the most incentive-resistant professions in America: schoolteachers. These findings have some interesting implications for managing performance.