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The answer is: 10 years to change a culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Typically, we are talking about moving a culture from its current set of values that has sustained the business, to a culture that helps the company compete in a new reality that may be different or more competitive or operate in a slightly adjacent market. That's what has led to such a stellar flying record in the US.

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Soren Kaplan’s April 2015 Leapfrogging Newsletter

Leapfrogging

Sustained competitive advantage comes from innovating how we innovate. The most innovative companies today realize that competitive differentiation comes as much from how they innovate as it does from what they’re innovating. 175k Innovation Prize 2015 – Deadline April 30, 2015.

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Sometimes, flat hierarchies can hurt innovation in Start-ups

Idea to Value

However, eventually as more employees join the company, the research shows that without management layers being added, employees become unable to organise themselves to actually deliver projects. It can be a fine balancing act, especially if the moment when the company needs to transition to adding managerial layers comes as a surprise.

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Crowdsourcing with the Competition: Rewarding Venture or Precarious Proposition?

Qmarkets

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. Understandably, the increase in competition and market saturation is seen by those who experience it as a direct threat to their organizational legitimacy. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sleeping With the Enemy.

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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. It is still hard to believe.

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Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

Innovation ca feel a lot like that — your competition is a big tough impossible-to-beat player like Superman. Here’s the thing, like the inept and psychologically damaged journalist Jimmy Olsen, even a dysfunctional company that heretofore hasn’t managed to get innovation going can start now.

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Crowdsourcing with the Competition: Rewarding Venture or Precarious Proposition?

Qmarkets

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. Understandably, the increase in competition and market saturation is seen by those who experience it as a direct threat to their organizational legitimacy. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sleeping With the Enemy.