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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

On May 1, 2003, KMart begins trading again. Heck, leadership had discontinued the famous catalogues in 1993 to stop store cannibalization and push people into locations where the company could promote more products and services. So that was where he had leadership focus. To gain more insight, take a look at Jeff Bezos.

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ikeGPS – How To Invest in Trends To Escape Your Core and Grow Explosively

Adam Hartung

It is possible to slingshot into leadership positions with new solutions, literally from out of nowhere. ikeGPS was started in 2003 as a government/military funded products research company. In early 2015 ideGPS announced that Stanley Black&Decker would brand and sell Spike via traditional retail.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Shane, 2003). Sharp (2010) has found that there is strong paradox in (entrepreneurial) leadership when it comes to innovation at the personal level of the entrepreneur. Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: What leadership capabilities are necessary to support innovation and entrepreneurship Retrieved from [link].

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Facebook’s Surge, Apple’s Slide and Chipotle’s Stall – It’s All About Growth

Adam Hartung

With growth like that Facebook’s leadership can do anything it wants. Breaking a streak of 51 straight quarters of revenue growth (since 2003) really sent investors fleeing. Now many investors don’t think Apple’s leadership can do anything right. That was after a 15% decline in Q4, 2015.

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Innovation in Myanmar

Innovation Excellence

After democratic political reforms in 2010-2012 and the rise in power of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy in 2015, other countries began to lift economic sanctions against Myanmar and tourists began to visit the once-isolated country in greater numbers, even though the country still is under control of the military regime.