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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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How To Succeed With Purpose

Innovators Alliance

Phillip founded PUBLIC in 2008 to disrupt the way companies think about doing “good”. They are looking for leadership to speak out and act as a beacon to propel action on important social and environmental issues. So a well defined purpose is critical to both deciding when to lean in and how to engage.

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

Wazoku

When we look at all the research and the statistics from numerous annual global innovation surveys we still see common themes from senior, leadership and executive teams around why innovation isn’t being driven effectively, some examples of which are below…. 60% of leaders admit their leadership team fails to understand their customers.

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

Wazoku

When we look at all the research and the statistics from numerous annual global innovation surveys we still see common themes from senior, leadership and executive teams around why innovation isn’t being driven effectively, some examples of which are below…. 60% of leaders admit their leadership team fails to understand their customers.

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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. In this blog post, I will elaborate on leadership and how it relates to four major innovation paradoxes, or to use another word, dilemmas.

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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).