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Are you Ready to use this Economic Downturn to Become Recession Proof?

Daniel Burrus

But as I have mentioned to clients and colleagues many times over the course of my career: Agility will never set you ahead of disruption; it will only give you momentary peace of mind. A brief example of an organization that capitalized on the 2008 recession in remarkable ways is Lego. Opportunity Awaits — It Never Waits.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. We need to make some major changes with urgency and a depth of purpose.

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How To Succeed With Purpose

Innovators Alliance

Phillip founded PUBLIC in 2008 to disrupt the way companies think about doing “good”. So a well defined purpose is critical to both deciding when to lean in and how to engage. But times have changed. They understand that positive social change takes time. Our guest contributor this month is Phillip Haid.

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Innovation – Are you aware of how critical it is to your business?

Wazoku

CB: For me, it boils down to a genuine willingness and desire to change an organisation in pursuit of something special, ambitious and exciting. The quest for innovation usually then gets positioned as a focus on radical or disruption. JG: What are the biggest enablers for innovation?

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Innovation – Are you aware of how critical it is to your business?

Wazoku

CB: For me, it boils down to a genuine willingness and desire to change an organisation in pursuit of something special, ambitious and exciting. The quest for innovation usually then gets positioned as a focus on radical or disruption. JG: What are the biggest enablers for innovation?

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Four Innovation Paradoxes driving disruption

Innovation 360 Group

There are a number of well-documented key drivers for innovation and global disruption, as discussed in this blog. New technology changes the structure of the industry. The future will judge whether they are long-term winners or whether they will be bought by someone else disrupting them. The market cap of Adobe.

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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).