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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Often, and especially in contemporary times, the real story of innovation doesn’t involve lone geniuses or flashes of inspiration, but teams, organizations, and leaders who cultivate systems and cultures where new ideas can sprout and flourish. It started with creating systems that captured and vetted new ideas from all over the organization.

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Sowing Wild Oats & Getting It Out of Your System - What's Really Happening

Building Personal Strength

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. He sketched out an alternate system and presented it to his boss, who showed it to top management. Lucky for him!

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3 Characteristics That Could Be Preventing Your Good Team from Becoming Great

Let's Grow Leaders

Systems and processes are vital when it comes to high-performing teams. 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. Your Amazing SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) Yes, yes, yes.

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Innovative Leadership in the Wild

LDRLB

More than one marketing powerhouse that I’m acquainted with has internal systems and procedures that would amaze you with their ineptness, diseconomy, and resistance to truly fundamental improvement. Go ahead and read the article (link below), and you’ll learn about these four techniques: Immerse yourself. Overcome orthodoxies.

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3Rs Internal Communication Model: 3 Steps to Reboot Internal Communications Through COVID-19

leaderCommunicator

What a wild ride 2020 has been. Social unrest and attention towards systemic inequity came to the forefront. As leaders and communicators, we focused on keeping people safe and trying to help them understand the impact on business. Work went virtual for those who could. The focus turned to essential workers and supporting them.

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Entrepreneurs Operating System (EOS) Lacks Traction

CO2

Entrepreneurs Operating System). EOS and Traction Doesn’t Understand Entrepreneurs Additionally, entrepreneurs have a way of letting the idea machine run wild. When the entrepreneur has an ability within the system to add BOULDERS, ROCKs, ACTIONS, Etc. You really need an outside perspective to see this system at play.

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Innovative Leadership in the Wild

LDRLB

More than one marketing powerhouse that I’m acquainted with has internal systems and procedures that would amaze you with their ineptness, diseconomy, and resistance to truly fundamental improvement. Go ahead and read the article (link below), and you’ll learn about these four techniques: Immerse yourself. Overcome orthodoxies.

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