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Good Ideas Often go Nowhere: Here’s What You Can Do About It

The Inovo Group

Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, was one of the first 20 employees of WebEx that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. Does executive leadership see things differently than individual contributors? Senior leadership needs to decide how to proceed. The idea was rejected. In a matter of days they get back is the following.

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. A 2007 study by M.

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Creating Effective Social Impact Leaders (or, Leaders!)

Mills-Scofield

Leadership: is "Social" Leadership really that different? But, examples from history and the present day show this isn’t the case. It was leadership of this sort that spurred creative protest and a reordering of society, not simply an inversion of power. See Robin's bio below - after you read this great post!

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Unicorns, Decacorns and Hectocorns are the theme of the present era. Leadership Insights 1. Then, put on your leadership hat. Now, how about these? Something big is going on.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Unicorns, Decacorns and Hectocorns are the theme of the present era. Leadership Insights. Then, put on your leadership hat. The Iclif Leadership and Governance Centre.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Unicorns, Decacorns and Hectocorns are the theme of the present era. Leadership Insights 1. Then, put on your leadership hat. Now, how about these? Something big is going on.

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

In 2007 a small-time, ailing Netflix actually thought they were going to be acquired by the Blockbusters giant, but they decided they didn’t want to. Each CEO was so ignorant of history that they presented the same business plan over and over again, until Netflix was ready to take their market share with a bulletproof online offering.

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