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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases In the modern business landscape, we often hear the argument that leaders should be hired from within the same industry to be effective. Here, we make a case for the top five universal leadership skills, which are, arguably, more critical than industry-specific experience.

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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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Jeff Bezos’ Rule: What will not change?

Idea to Value

At an AWS discussion in 2012, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared some insights on how he thinks about the future and how it informs his innovation investment decisions: (See the video at the top of this blog article ). They then try to develop new products and business models to fit this new world.

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16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies

BrainZooming

You can apply these creative thinking questions to trigger your own brand’s strategic thinking on innovation strategy: Strategy. How is our leadership removing distractions to innovation (instead of creating them)? Customer-Focused Innovation Strategy. Which ones would we accelerate? Branding and Marketing.

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What is the ambition matrix and how does it work as part of an innovation portfolio?

Idea to Value

Originally developed by the strategy consultants at Monitor (now part of Deloitte) and made famous by a breakthrough article in Harvard Business Review by Geoff Tuff and Bansi Nagji, the Ambition Matrix is a tool which helps companies identify ways to execute their strategy around where to play and how to win.

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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

BrainZooming

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Agile Strategy and Disruptive Innovation. Developing an Agile Strategy.

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We are falling badly behind on our invention in technology for the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

I provide different perspectives and thinking, firstly on my innovating4energy.website for my offerings of service and a dedicated posting site for energy, innovating4energy.com that provides a decent mix of thought leadership, news and awareness, for the Energy Transition.