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Self-Righteousness Isn’t A Strategy

Digital Tonto

I first noticed this in the aftermath of the Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004. The post Self-Righteousness Isn’t A Strategy first appeared on Digital Tonto. So we feel the urge to lash out and silence opposition. That almost guarantees a failure to survive victory. It’s more important to make a difference than it is to make a point.

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How “True Believers” Can Undermine Change

Digital Tonto

I first noticed this in the aftermath of the Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004. Related posts: How To Overcome Resistance To Change To Overcome Resistance To Change, You Need A Strategy, Not A Slogan There Will Always Be People Who Want To Kill Change. So we feel the urge to lash out and silence opposition.

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Ambidextrous Innovation: Exploring the New Whilst Exploiting Success

ITONICS

The 2004 Harvard Business Review article “The Ambidextrous Organization” by Charles A. General managers and corporate executives should be able to relate. This is exactly what many organizations are struggling with today: Managing a proper balance between the past, today, and the future, between exploiting and exploring.

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Why Business Strategy Shouldn’t Be “Scientific”

Innovation Excellence

Yet even today, nearly a half century later, many executives and business strategists have failed to learn that simple lesson by attempting to inject “science” into strategy. The truth is that while strategy can be informed by science, it can never be, and shouldn’t be, truly scientific. Why Business Case Studies Are Flawed.

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Innovation Management: Importance, Ideas, and Examples

Acuvate

In less than a decade, innovation management got recognized as one of the most powerful strategies an organization can use to streamline internal processes and boost their business productivity. What is innovation management? What is innovation management? Importance of innovation management.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Growth Published: 2004 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2004 more…. Managing Distributed Innovation (Bogers). Managing Unsolicited Ideas (Alexey). Innovation Strategy (Goffin). Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2014 more…. Co-Creation (Prahalad). Co-Creating Value (Ramaswamy).

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The 5 Ways Chairman Lampert Destroyed Sears’ Value

Adam Hartung

The brand is now so tarnished that Sears Holdings is writing down the value of the Sears name by another $200million – reducing intangible value from the $4B at origination in 2004 to under $2B. Mr. Lampert has been merciless in his tenacity to manage every detail at Sears. 2 – Manage-by-the-numbers rather than trends.

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