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Bad news does not Travel up the Hierarchy

Destination Innovation

Amy Edmondson, professor of leadership and management at Harvard Business School, has written a book, The Fearless Organization, in which she argues that a culture of silence is both common and dangerous. In short, bad news does not travel up the hierarchy. NASA was under tremendous pressure to go ahead and catastrophe followed.

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We All Need To Learn The Change Lifecycle

Digital Tonto

When a transformational initiative fails, it's often said that it was because people don’t like change. Everywhere I go in the world, no matter what type of group I’m speaking to, people are enthusiastic about some kind of change. It’s other people’s ideas for change that they aren’t so crazy about. That’s not really true.

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The need for Transformational Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Transformational innovation is increasingly needed to cope with the change needed in many organizations to find a new or repositioned value proposition. These are the ones that change how we work, undertake business, or combine what was previously separated into a new business model to undertake a different way of working or thinking.

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Exponential Change in 2022: Five Industries to Watch

Daniel Burrus

Travel Planning. As apps and the internet have brought us more and more ways to plan our own vacations effortlessly, the use of traditional travel agencies has been diminishing rapidly. Enter: The coronavirus pandemic, leveling all travel with restrictions and closures. Remote Working.

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Why Unlearning Is At Least As Important As Learning

Digital Tonto

As I traveled to more countries I found that even basic market functions, such as TV buying, varied enormously from place to place. To Create Real Change, Leadership Is More Important Than Authority. I was at a loss for an answer, because these were thought to be so obvious that nobody ever questioned them.

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Time Travel Audit: Find Success Now and in the Future

Daniel Burrus

You don’t need a DeLorean for time travel. This same kind of time travel also occurs in business. You can time travel at organizations in your hometown that use legacy technology and antiquated techniques. Time travel is also possible between divisions within an organization. Even here in the U.S.,

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Taking Final Ideas to Market is the Hardest Part

Paul Hobcraft

I love the association of the “fuzzy front end” with ideas, brainstorming and all those creative energies bringing ideas to life, but sadly unless that final ‘rugged terrain’ at the back end is not traveled we never see the innovation come to life in the market place. Offer true leadership that is leading from the front.

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