Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases In the modern business landscape, we often hear the argument that leaders should be hired from within the same industry to be effective. Here, we make a case for the top five universal leadership skills, which are, arguably, more critical than industry-specific experience.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 26, 2024

(A Lesson Learned from Yogurt) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In September 2006, I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, on a temporary assignment with BCG. As one does when arriving somewhere for an extended period, I went to the grocery store to stock my kitchen. Since the grocery store was on the ground floor of my […]

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Planview

DECEMBER 12, 2022

My first experience with it was back in 2006 when I took a call from Carey Schwaber of Forrester. We held a mutual view on how collaboration and tooling are needed to span the end-to-end software lifecycle. Through VSM, leadership gains the visibility to align teams, workflows, and investments based on customer value.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

Susana shares more about Telefónica, a Spanish multinational telecommunications company that employs more than 100,000 people that has been investing in startups since 2006- for a total of 1000+ startups. In other words, balancing these two dimensions – the ‘now’ and the ‘new’ – is the trick for leadership to succeed at building businesses.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of questions that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

(or How Assumptions Stifle Innovation) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In the room were two single beds, each with a fluffy white comforter folded neatly on top. Yeah, this is not gonna work.” I had just entered my one-bedroom corporate apartment in Copenhagen, and while everything else was pleasantly light and spacious, there was no […]

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