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Enhancing child and family well-being using Family Resource Centers

Christensen Institute

Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021). She’s an Associate Professor at the Indiana University School of Social Work and Project Director of SIF. In addition to leadership, SIF’s processes are focused on building and strengthening Protective Factors and resilience. Christensen and Mark W.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. The long-horizon projects are the first to go and this leads to an unbalanced innovation portfolio.

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Tony Hsieh – The Remarkable Cultural Innovator at Zappos

Destination Innovation

By 2009, he had grown revenues to $1 billion. It offers leadership training courses including the “School of Wow.”. He organized a major re-development and revitalization project for the dilapidated downtown area of Las Vegas. In 2013 he pledged $350m for the project. This proved successful.

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Why mutual obligation is the key to leading for innovation

Cris Beswick

When I talk about leadership in the context of innovation, I’m always particular about using the phrase ‘leading FOR innovation’ not ‘innovation leadership’ because building a culture for innovation isn’t about leaders becoming innovators; it’s about leaders building a system and environment where innovation can thrive.

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Jean-Christophe Gaillard, Founder & CEO, Corix Partners

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

As the driving force behind Corix Partners, Jean-Christophe has demonstrated visionary leadership, shaping the company into a reputable entity known for its innovative solutions and strategic insights. They look for real-life solutions and the honest experience that comes from having seen those challenges day-in day-out for over 20 years.

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

Great Recession (late-2007 to mid-2009): R&D spending didn’t decline until 2009 (by 5.2%), but the decline continued into 2010 (0.4%). For example, it will tell you which projects and portfolios deliver higher RoI. For example: Early 2000s recession: R&D spending fell by 0.9% in 2001 and a further 5.6%

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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360 Group

Both situations are more common than we’d like to admit, simply because we try to apply what we know (how to run projects and operations with performance models, ROI and budgets) to something we don’t know. It’s incremental and involves so-called spiral staircase leadership (Table A). processes) and externally (e.g.