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Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2022

Innovation Excellence

After a week of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling during the judging round, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2022: Robyn Bolton Robyn M.

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L.I.V.E. (Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution): A new, more effective way to manage multiple innovation projects

Idea to Value

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. The problem with traditional project management techniques. innovation management method.

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2022 Vision Awards

Planview

The first of this year’s Vision Award Winners is Abbott Laboratories, whose R&D Program Management Offices within the Nutrition, Neuromodulation, and Electrophysiology divisions are using Planview to manage their product development processes.

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Good Management Is Not Good Strategy. Here’s What Is:

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Leadership StrategyOne of the most annoying things I hear from leaders is that “we had a great strategy, but just couldn’t execute it.” That’s simply not possible. If you can’t execute it, it’s not a great strategy. [[ This is a content summary only.

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The Emerging Spend Management Sector: Simplifying Your Accounting Processes

Speaker: Spencer Falbo, Principal at Kong Basile Consulting

In this webinar, Spencer Falbo, principal at Kong Basile Consulting will teach you how Spend Management can help to automate many of your processes, making your job as an accountant more efficient.

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How to Lead Innovation and Embrace Innovative Leadership

Viima

Leadership Innovation Innovation ManagementLeaders are bombarded from all directions with advice on how to behave as leaders.

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Status Bias Inhibits Innovation

Destination Innovation

Idea management schemes can make ideas anonymous. The Economist Sept 17, 2022. Brainstorming and Ideation Leadership of Innovation economist hierarchy sabiou inoua status bias vernon smith

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Strategic Leadership: Understanding its Purpose and Core Attributes

CMOE

You can’t have strategy without leadership. Ultimately, strategic leadership is what makes the difference between success or failure. Why Does Strategic Leadership Matter? Strategy formulation requires a clearly defined vision, long-term goals, useful tools, and a plan to win.

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How an MBA Can Launch Your Career in Business Leadership

Business and Tech

Candidate, Management and Leadership, Florida Gulf Coast University. I decided to open a leadership consulting business and pursue a research professorship, so the next step was to pursue an M.B.A. with a leadership concentration. Two women pursuing M.B.A.

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Top 5: How to plan your 2023 innovation activities and events for maximum success

Idea to Value

Hi there, With 2022 almost behind us, a lot of companies and teams are planning their next steps for 2023. This is especially true for venture and innovation teams, who let’s face it, many of whom had a very tough 2022.

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Taking Personal Responsibility – Back to Leadership Basics

Innovation Excellence

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The Future of Product Management

Speaker: Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, Founder and CEO of The Product School

Whether you’re charting a career, seeking industry intel direct from the (crowd) source, or curious about the product-led trajectory, join the CEO of the Product School, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, for a close up on the future of product management.

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The need for Transformational Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

To become different has some ‘wicked’ inherent conflicts; to undo the ‘known and established’ into many parts of a potentially unknown end outcome requires a boldness of leadership. The need for transformational innovation.

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Gemba Walks: The way to see what is actually happening in your business

Idea to Value

For many managers and leaders, it may have been a while since they actually experienced what it is like where the action happens. This is related to the similar concept of Management by Walking Around (MBWA). LeadershipDo you know what is happening in your business?

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Management Accountability in Two Dimensions

Innovation Excellence

Moore In Silicon Valley, we talk a lot about leadership but perhaps not enough about management. That’s because we are famous for working the fuzzy front end of things, where management is premature and leadership is paramount. Leadership accountability Management

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Overcoming The Challenges Of Reinvention

Faisal Hoque

Blogs Blogs I Articles Creativity | Innovation Leadership | Management Digital Faisal Hoque innovation Leadership & Management Management TransformationCommitment, timeframe matters when remaking your organization.

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Stop Expecting People To Act Rationally! Here’s Why:

Digital Tonto

Leadership is not an algorithm, but a practice of creating meaning through relationships of trust in the context of a shared purpose. Related posts: 5 Things I Learned From Managing People. All Posts ManagementIn an earlier age, organizations were far more hierarchical.

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Leading Through Uncertainty

Digital Tonto

It is through managing complexity, not avoiding it, that we can most effectively impact the world. All Posts Management Complexity Leadership UncertaintyThe truth is that uncertainty is only a problem if you try to control it.

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Directive and Supportive Leadership: Which One to Use and When

CMOE

There are many types of leadership styles out there. Here, we’ll discuss two specific styles: directive and supportive leadership. One is not objectively better than the other—it all depends on your work culture, the people you manage, and the situations you encounter.

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6 Common Management and Leadership Mistakes

CMOE

As a new manager, there’s a lot that you need to be thinking about in your day-to-day work. Here are some of the most common mistakes managers and leaders make and how you can avoid them in your new role. Business Leadership

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Adopting A Changemaker Mindset

Digital Tonto

That’s why “change management” gurus focus on communication and persuasion. All Posts Management Change Leadership TransformationPeople who believe in change want to believe that if everyone understood it, they’d want it to happen.

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The Transformative Power Of Purpose

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Leadership PurposeValues are how an enterprise honors its purpose. Yet living up to them involves certain costs. You can’t say you value employees and then lay them off at the first sign of trouble, just like you. [[ This is a content summary only.

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The Lifecycle of a Breakthrough

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Breakthrough Innovation LeadershipThe global activist Srdja Popovi? once told me that when a revolution is successful, it’s difficult to explain the previous order, because it comes to be seen as unbelievable. Just as it’s hard to. [[ This is a content summary only.

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This One Simple Scientific Principle Explains Why You Shouldn’t Waste Too Much Time Trying To Convince People

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Change Leadership Network Theory TransformationWe like to think we can shape the ideas of others. It can sometimes seem like a puzzle.

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Why Your Idea Will Probably Fail To Survive Victory

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Change Leadership Movements TransformationIn the two decades I have been researching transformation and change, the failure to survive victory is probably the most consistent aspect of it. In fact, it is so common you can almost set your watch by it.

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Why Purpose Matters

Digital Tonto

The nature of the firm, in this view, is simply to minimize transaction costs and skilled managers should. [[ This is a content summary only. All Posts Management Leadership PurposeIf you believe in a rational universe, a business is little more than a set of transactions.

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Why Unlearning Is At Least As Important As Learning

Digital Tonto

To Create Real Change, Leadership Is More Important Than Authority. Why Managers Now Need To Become Leaders. All Posts Management Leadership Learning OrganizationsWhen I first went overseas to Poland in 1997, I thought I knew how the media business worked.

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Why We Need To Put Human Agency Back At The Center Of Decision-Making

Digital Tonto

A joke began circulating in the late 1970s, often attributed to management consultant Warren Bennis, that the factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. If you believe that human judgment is a liability rather than an asset, you manage accordingly.

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Learning From Mistakes Is What Separates Truly Revolutionary Leaders From Everyone Else

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Leadership TransformationThere’s nothing quite like the rapture of an epiphany, that initial flash of insight which is still pure and innocent, before the harsh realities of the world muck it up with a bunch of inconvenient. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Don’t Hate Your Haters, Leverage Them To Your Advantage

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Change Dilemma Actions Leadership Strategy TransformationWhen we feel passionately about change, we want to take action. We want to take to the streets, argue against injustice. We want to make decisions, launch a business, get things done.

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Empathic Leadership: What It Is, Why You Need It, How to Do It

CMOE

The evidence is clear—now more than ever, empathy will be vital to an organization’s long-term success and a sought-after leadership quality. Empathic leadership is the ability to identify and understand the thoughts, feelings, differences, and experiences of others and respond accordingly.

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We Need To Stop Cheerleading Change

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Change Leadership TransformationMy friend Srdja Popovi? once told me that the goal of a revolution should be to become mainstream, to be mundane and ordinary. If you are successful it should be difficult to explain what was won. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Every Changemaker Should Know These 3 Strategies (But Most Don’t)

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Change Leadership Strategy TransformationIn the final analysis, the reason that most would-be revolutionaries fail is that they assume that the righteousness of their cause will save them. It will not. Injustice, inequity and. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Here’s How You Build Transformative Teams

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Collaboration Leadership TeamworkThe truth is that there is no effective answer for the question, “how do we find innovative people?” Talent isn’t something you hire or win in a war, it’s something you empower. It depends less on. [[ This is a content summary only.

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We Need To Get Back To Counting What Counts

Digital Tonto

To argue that there is a principal-agent problem between owners and managers should not imply that it only applies to profits. Managing With A Soul. All Posts Management Leadership

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It’s Time To Rethink The Change Gospel

Digital Tonto

Managers who want to be seen as change leaders launch too many initiatives. All Posts Management Change Leadership TransformationIn a nutshell, we are talking about change more, but doing it less. That’s a problem.

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Why We’re Better Off Assuming People Are Competent And Hardworking

Digital Tonto

5 Things I Learned From Managing People. All Posts Management Leadership MythsWe all like to imagine ourselves as heroes in our own story. Unlike others, we are witnesses to our internal process and get to observe our logic develop.

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Leading with Connection: Reflections on Modern Leadership

Planview

Connection, alignment, trust, and how they relate to strategy and organizational effectiveness – these were the topics on everyone’s minds at our recent leadership team offsite meeting. Prioritizing Connection Within Our Leadership Team. Innovation Management

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Cultivate Innovation by Managing with Empathy

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Managing with empathy is a leader’s superpower. Empathy opens the door to increased innovation, collaboration, and engagement.

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What impact does a Hybrid working model have on performance?

Idea to Value

And Elon Musk sent an email to all Tesla employees on 31 May 2022 sent by Musk to Tesla employees, saying: “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean minimum) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla.

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We’re In For A Decade Of Generational Strife. Here’s How To Navigate It.

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management LeadershipThe almost seismic shift in values that the transition from Boomer to Millennial dominance represents would be enough to set the stage for conflict. What will make this decade even more difficult is. [[ This is a content summary only.

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We All Need To Learn The Change Lifecycle

Digital Tonto

Middle managers complain that they are bursting with ideas, but can’t get the bosses to go along. The problem is that managers don’t study change the same way they study finance, or marketing, or strategy. But change has a lifecycle that we can learn to manage and exploit.

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What Is an Innovation Manager?

InnovationManagement

Some of the roles that have sprung out of an increased focus on innovation are Chief Innovation Officer, Innovation Consultant, and, notably, Innovation Manager. The post What Is an Innovation Manager? Blog Archive Leadership