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Trust as a Competitive Advantage

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell One of the most rewarding things about writing my book Mapping Innovation was talking to the innovators themselves. All of them were prominent (one recently won the Nobel Prize), but I found them to be the among the kindest and most generous people you can imagine, nothing like the difficult […]

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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? Remember: thinking, planning, and acting strategically should never be viewed as the sole responsibility of senior leadership.

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New Innovation Books for 2021 & Beyond

InnovationTraining.org

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. These innovation-focused book recommendations will help teach you the skills and techniques needed to grow your business and improve your company’s innovation efforts. Check out our list of design thinking books to read. The Leadership Innovation Manifesto.

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Blending Metrics and Empathy with Design Thinking: The New Paradigm in Leadership

Tullio Siragusa

Blending Metrics and Empathy with Design Thinking: The New Paradigm in Leadership The contemporary leadership environment requires a meticulous balance between quantitative evaluations and genuine human connection. With Design Thinking as the tool, a new paradigm is set to emerge, merging metrics-driven and empathy-driven leadership.

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Innovation and creativity: the lasting competitive advantage

Jeffrey Phillips

Dubai is unusual because it combines a number of factors - an energetic leadership, a country and region hungry for growth and transformation, a significant investment pool, and a real "can do" spirit. Daniel Pink wrote a book entitled A Whole New Mind in 2005, and at the time the book had a nice reception.

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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

Fresh off the pain of my poor Boilermakers loss in the NCAA tournament, I reflect on what a startling competitive disadvantage you’re at if your competitor can score buckets at three times your team’s speed. Speed of software delivery is either a competitive advantage or a startling disadvantage in the digital age.

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Podcast S3E54: Rita McGrath – Seeing inflection points of innovation

Idea to Value

One of the interesting points we cover is the concept of Inflection Points in innovation, and the management structures and governance from leadership required for innovation to thrive in a company. 00:11:30 – Example of leadership choices and decision making from a Virtual Bank. Book: Seeing around corners: [link].