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Challenging the Assumption of the Status Quo

Innovation Excellence

(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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What I Learned Solving a Business Crisis

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell By 2006 we knew we had a serious problem. Our company’s onetime flagship product, called Afisha, was in a steady decline and it was becoming all too clear that something had to be done. What had once been a market leader that generated huge profits, which fueled the growth of […]

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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How college presidents can last in the job to create lasting change

Christensen Institute

That’s down from nearly nine years in 2006. Specifically, what tools of leadership and management a president should use and in what circumstance they should use them. The Tools of Cooperation theory groups these tools into four different categories: leadership tools, power tools, management tools, and culture tools.

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How Transformational Leaders Learn To Overcome Failure

Innovation Excellence

The difference, I have found, between truly transformational leaders and those that fail isn’t so much innate talent or even ambition, but their ability to learn along the way. It was, in fact, what he learned from the earlier failure that helped make the Salt March such a remarkable success. Learning To Overthrow A Dictator.

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What Formula Made Steve Jobs as an Innovation Leader So Successful?

IdeaScale

Steve Jobs as a leader offers a simple set of lessons on innovation: You need to accept failure as part of the process; have a tight focus with clear and simple goals; ensure leadership takes ownership of the entire process, to think ahead of the current industry; and have high standards. Failure Is A Part Of The Process.

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Flow Metrics for the Win — Planview Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ on Value Stream Management

Planview

My first experience with it was back in 2006 when I took a call from Carey Schwaber of Forrester. Through VSM, leadership gains the visibility to align teams, workflows, and investments based on customer value. Go here to learn more. Category creation can be a long, winding, and rewarding road. At the time, I was a Ph.D.