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Emotional Intelligence: The Game-Changer in Leadership Development

Leapfrogging

Components of Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence is generally broken down into four or five core components, each playing a distinct role in leadership development: Self-Awareness: The ability to recognize and understand one’s own emotions and how they affect thoughts and behavior.

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Ambidextrous organisations: Where innovation should sit in an organisation

Idea to Value

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Option 2: Innovation teams within each company brand / product unit. Positives: Simple.

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What innovation leaders share with military leaders

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Disruptions always come from unexpected places and from unexpected sources. How do innovation leaders help their teams and lead from the front? Communicate.

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RE-THINKING FOR A NEW AGE

ImagineNation

Adopting this approach supports your human-centricity and enables you to become future-fit through developing your set of 21st-century superpowers in the face of the acute disruption of COVID-19. Re-thinking in a disconnected and disruptive age. Developing a habit of reflective practices. Critical art of re-thinking.

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Creating high-performing and faster-moving teams

ImagineNation

It seems that every meeting I went to recently, and almost every person I spoke to, mentioned the new book, from the authors of How Google Works – The Trillion Dollar Coach. It is described as the “blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create high-performing and faster-moving teams and companies”.

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Using Lean Innovation in the Product Development and Commercialization Process

Moves the Needle

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. Developing customer empathy, validating or invalidating key business model assumptions through rapid experimentation, and leveraging data and insights as market evidence results in greater possibility of successful commercialization. What is Commercialization?

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Recession Proof Your Business the Design Thinking Way

Tullio Siragusa

No matter that the questions, you can prepare yourselves ahead of time without disrupting the business. In the present economic situation, when your business is surrounded by instability, pandemics, and disruption, planning to innovate business strategies or prepare for recessions is prudent and wise. Recession-Proofing Business.