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Uncharted Waters Disrupting the Corporate Boardrooms

Paul Hobcraft

When you read a report that has within its executive summary this: “ In combination the boards stand unarmed to enter the battlefield of future business creation in a disrupted world ” it makes you want to read on. It wanted to address the skill-set at board level to handle digital disruption and the urgency to act proactively.

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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

We had a target to hit, and I was responsible for producing the reporting for the rest of the leadership team (of which he was one), but as time went on it became clearer and clearer that it would be impossible to hit the target, which would have an impact on the overall team budget. In essence, ignore problems instead of acknowledging them.

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

Posted on September 25, 2015. Moving towards a new innovation service model, Posted on August 12, 2015. A new innovation perspective – change to fluidity, Posted on June 29, 2015. Posted on January 4, 2015. The intervening years between the first “burst of 2011 / 12 and 2015 / 16. Posted on November 22, 2014.

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Think Your Business Will Exist in 10 Years?

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.” Outgoing Cisco CEO, John Chambers, told the company’s customers that in 2015. Three years hence, is your leadership team challenging itself to think, plan, and innovate strategically to land on the right side of future success? Download your FREE copy of Disrupting Thinking.

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Leading In A World of Disruption

Daniel Burrus

In today’s world of technology-driven transformation, leaders need to embrace a new leadership principle if they want their organization to be relevant today and in the future. But digital disruption from the outside-in has been coming at an ever-increasing speed, and it’s only getting faster. Identify them so you can anticipate.

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The secret to this government department’s innovation success: Small teams

Idea to Value

Editor’s note: I did the math, and $86bn is more than the 2015 GDP of 125 countries!]. As Van Dyck put it: When the status quo is failure, there is simply no other choice apart from radical disruption. Give them “air cover” from leadership all the way to the top.

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Dow and DuPont – Nobody wins when transactions replace leadership

Adam Hartung

But in a series of fast actions during 2015, DuPont as it has been known is going away. And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it. Many felt leadership was over-spending on overhead costs like R&D,product development and headquarters personnel. But this victory was quite short-lived. By October, Ms.