Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. Here’s a Q&A with Matt that highlights the key points in the book. They are real.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The challenge comes from the fact that nobody on the project teams wants to be one of the 9 which could fail, often leading to investment in projects which have no risk, but also no opportunity for significant innovation or growth. How can we help leaders and teams become more willing to try things which may fail?

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 17, 2021

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Too often, executives and military leaders don't want to hear the "bad news" and that leads them to double down on poor strategies. Communicate. Be a bit humble.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

For example, rather than saying your aim is to deliver nutritious food to the poor, you can say that the goal is to increase distribution of nutrients to a population with a particular income by 100% in the next 2 years. This will allow you to know whether you underperformed or not. It must be specific and should have deliverables.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2020

While the visit unquestionably left an impression on him, the theory was actually only developed through the many conversations he had years after the visit with people who had also done research on the topic. It took another 17 years before he actually published his findings in his book on the topic, On the Origin of Species.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2017

The concept was popularised in the influential book, Nudge, by economists, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, published in 2008. In 2010 the British Government set up a Behaviourial Insights Team (BIT), which became known as the ‘Nudge Unit’ Its aim was to save at least ten times its running cost.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He is the author or coauthor of 15 books including “ Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don’t ” and “The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First.” Traditional health benefits administrators have bad networks. Jeffrey Pfeffer has taught at Stanford University since 1979.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It seems that every meeting I went to recently, and almost every person I spoke to, mentioned the new book, from the authors of How Google Works – The Trillion Dollar Coach. It is described as the “blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create high-performing and faster-moving teams and companies”.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Analyzing data through a descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive lens can help you better understand and communicate the full picture to your team. Turning Bad Charts into Compelling Data Stories | Dominic Bohan | TEDxYouth@Singapore. This book is not about visualizing data, there are plenty of books covering that.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. Developing customer empathy, validating or invalidating key business model assumptions through rapid experimentation, and leveraging data and insights as market evidence results in greater possibility of successful commercialization. What is Commercialization?

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Idea to Value

JUNE 2, 2022

This requires you actually spending the time figuring out what customers would find valuable enough to pay for, and then execute and develop, test and launch that. They make it incredibly easy and fast to develop pages specifically designed to convince someone to give you their email address, or even high-converting sales pages.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Adopting this approach supports your human-centricity and enables you to become future-fit through developing your set of 21st-century superpowers in the face of the acute disruption of COVID-19. Developing a habit of reflective practices. Re-thinking in a disconnected and disruptive age. Thinking, fast and slow.

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Idea to Value

MAY 9, 2022

Having the resources to develop what you are thinking of. Several researchers have even found evidence from a number of fields (including science and movie, music and book industries) that there is a real element of randomness in the the relationship between timing, collaboration and what becomes a hit. A supportive network around you.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak again with author Todd Henry about his new book Daily Creative. By the time this podcast launches, the book has already been #1 on Amazon, so congratulations Todd. 00:07:15 – How the book is structured in order to be useful every day and repeatable.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 15, 2022

People need these essential services and products during the good and bad times as well. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design. It is deeply rooted in questioning, generating ideas, and developing the creation of innovation. After the development and prototyping, test it with your customers.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 20, 2017

We learn that some of the legends of how the Post-It Note was developed are indeed true. This is apparently true, as in 1968 3M’s Spencer Silver was working on developing an ultra-strong adhesive for use in aircraft construction. Legend #1: The adhesive formula was a mistake, and was supposed to be super-strong.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I wrote extensively about how to create a culture of innovation in my last book, The Invisible Advantage. One such person is JetBlue Chairman, Joel Peterson, author of the book The 10 Laws of Trust. It means dealing openly with bad news as well as good news. With proper metrics, people learn to trust the system.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Thanks to my blog, and hopefully the insights I share here, I'm often asked to review books about innovation and innovators. Recently I was asked to review a book entitled Quirky. Quirky is as quirky does Melissa Schilling, who is a professor at NYU, took an interesting approach when writing this book.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Still I came away with a 50% achievement mark which was not so bad on the overall innovation intent I had set myself but one area was very frustrating to move forward upon- the subject of risk and how it is treated in innovation management. Blood pressure pills came in handy here also. It is going to be tougher than I initially imagined.

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Planview

JUNE 6, 2022

Our goal is not only to empower our customers to focus on the work that matters most, but also our own teams and there is no denying that when working within a sales organization, collaboration, focus, and communication is crucial to success. I have a team of 3 Vice Presidents of Sales and 22 Account Executives.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

Like so many other organizational leaders in China at that time, I had a very young team and we needed to skill-up. Within 18 months or so, they had developed a solid Innovation Skillset foundation. I needed to help my team and leaders cultivate an Innovation Mindset. But how to do that? And I found one.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

This article is adapted from his recent book, What Matters in This Moment: Leading Groups Through Uncertain Times. is the guiding question, and we develop solutions based upon our understanding of the answer. becomes the salient question, and discovering the likely answers determines the responses that will be developed.

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CMOE

JANUARY 14, 2021

Delegation can help free up a manager’s time, but many managers still hold onto fears like the following: Delegation takes too long: Delegation is a skill, and as with any new skill you’re developing, you may be less proficient with it at first—but you can learn to become much faster and better at it with practice.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00) 18:30) Book recommendation to foster – The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. (19:00) 18:30) Book recommendation to foster – The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. (19:00)

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

As if the real news isn’t bad enough, unimaginably crazy stories start getting passed around. I called my senior team into an emergency meeting and told them, “This is bad. I called my senior team into an emergency meeting and told them, “This is bad. Really bad. In their 2005 book, W.

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Stephen Shapiro

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Invest in research and development : Large organizations should allocate resources towards researching new technologies and ideas that have the potential to drive innovation. I’ve asked it to help me with book subtitles, ideas for a new speech, and thoughts on growing my business. My Thoughts.

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IM Insights

MARCH 17, 2022

Elijah Eilert speaks to Paul Orlando about his book Growth Units to discover how to best calculate Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value. Get the Book. 01:00) Introducing Paul Orlando and his book Growth Units , the foundation of this episode. Paul gives an example from his book. About the Episode. price per unit

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies?

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. That happiness, however, is short-lived when upon closer inspection, I find them blank, not up to date, or a list of problems invented to justify the solution the team is already committed to building.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Yet, when we look around we don’t find the corresponding adoption across teams. often part of a mandated checklist imposed upon teams. That happiness, however, is short-lived when upon closer inspection, I find them blank, not up to date, or a list of problems invented to justify the solution the team is already committed to building.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

For an airline, determining the correct way for a gate agent to manage boarding, or for a flight attendant to interact with passengers, are both elements of managing an internal brand team. Here are three internal branding weak spots the United incident highlights. Who Is Your Internal Brand Team?

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Stephen Shapiro

AUGUST 29, 2022

I previously started posting the 40 strategies from my Best Practices are Stupid book. As you read this and the other chapters, please remember that this book was published back in 2011. As this book will reveal, you don’t want more ideas. Google reportedly lets its employees use 20 percent of their time to develop new ideas.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is why it’s important to gain the support of everyone on the team and treat everyone as partners in everything that is contributing to the growth of the organization. If a leader isn’t aware of their own strengths and weaknesses, then the support from their team can be overwhelming. You also get to inspire your team. “A

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2019

Rural Development Hinges On The Creative Class. Richard Florida is, in my view, the top theorist in the USA with regards to economic development. His main point: the data shows that rural areas that develop and maintain Creative Class workers, innovate more, and improve the economy of the area.

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

Or maybe Steve Jobs on stage with a devilish grin just before he wows the audience with “one more thing…” Yet in researching my book, Mapping Innovation , I found that very few of the organizations I studied looked like that. Code-named “Project Aristotle,” the aim was to see what made successful teams tick.

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IdeaScale

MAY 23, 2018

Elementary School Math aside, when the IdeaScale team approached us about doing a joint marketing effort, I got excited. With the reason being that we at Ever Evolving , LOVE this tool and their team. People take classes at the gym or go to CrossFit to be around people and use their motivation to persevere in moments of weakness.

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