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The Gremlin Strategy, or How to Ward Off Disruption

Matthew May

Brian was a frequent visitor to Toyota’s Los Angeles campus during my tenure there as an advisor from 1999–2006. After reading his 1999 book High Velocity Leadership , we invited Brian to guest speak about the Mars Pathfinder project, and he soon he became a regular fixture in the University of Toyota’s “leanleadership curriculum.

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Innovation Management in 2023: Venture Building & Scaling

Innov8rs

As part of our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed this (and more) with Frank Mattes (CEO at Lean Scaleup), Sean Sheppard (Managing Partner at U+), and Susana Jurado (Head of Wayra Builder at Telefónica). Why can it be so hard for corporates to launch substantial new businesses? Business Building: Pros and Cons.

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Coaching helps overcome the ten innovation intractables

Paul Hobcraft

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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Coaching helps overcome the ten innovation intractables

Paul Hobcraft

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

Open Innovation EU

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).