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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases In the modern business landscape, we often hear the argument that leaders should be hired from within the same industry to be effective. Here, we make a case for the top five universal leadership skills, which are, arguably, more critical than industry-specific experience.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Challenging the Assumption of the Status Quo

Innovation Excellence

(A Lesson Learned from Yogurt) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In September 2006, I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, on a temporary assignment with BCG. As one does when arriving somewhere for an extended period, I went to the grocery store to stock my kitchen. Since the grocery store was on the ground floor of my […]

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How college presidents can last in the job to create lasting change

Christensen Institute

That’s down from nearly nine years in 2006. Understanding their success has much to teach leaders about how to manage innovation and change. Specifically, what tools of leadership and management a president should use and in what circumstance they should use them.

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Flow Metrics for the Win — Planview Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ on Value Stream Management

Planview

My first experience with it was back in 2006 when I took a call from Carey Schwaber of Forrester. I was not sure who Forrester was and why they were researching a category called Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). A similar shift is underway in how we visualize, manage, and optimize flow across our organizations.

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Innovation Management in 2023: Venture Building & Scaling

Innov8rs

As part of our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed this (and more) with Frank Mattes (CEO at Lean Scaleup), Sean Sheppard (Managing Partner at U+), and Susana Jurado (Head of Wayra Builder at Telefónica). Why can it be so hard for corporates to launch substantial new businesses? Business Building: Pros and Cons.

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Coaching helps overcome the ten innovation intractables

Paul Hobcraft

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?