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The Hidden Advantage: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

Leapfrogging

Introduction to Emotional Intelligence in Leadership In the dynamic landscape of corporate leadership, emotional intelligence (EI) has emerged as a critical component of effective management and strategic vision. This section introduces the concept of emotional intelligence and underscores its significance in leadership roles.

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Why Big Projects Fail — and How to Give Yours a Better Chance of Success

Harvard Business Review

There are five reasons that large projects fail. Wrong projects are ones that defy conventional business rationale, creating outputs that either few people want, that add little to no real value, or that undershoot the desired benefits because they are so difficult to achieve.

Project 132
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Driving Success: How to Lead High Performance Leadership Teams with Psychological Safety & Experiential Intelligence

Leapfrogging

Introduction to High Performance Leadership Teams Defining High Performance Leadership Teams High performance leadership teams are those that not only achieve outstanding results but also sustain these levels of success over time. It’s the bedrock upon which innovative and collaborative teams are built.

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Innovation Project Governance Do's & Don'ts

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Despite its importance, innovation project governance is often handled ineffectively, slowing down rather than driving innovation. Innovation project governance is a decision-making discipline where organizational leaders decide which ideas to pursue, how to allocate the innovation budget, and how to assign resources.

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Business Models Changing the Landscape of Growth and Innovation

Speaker: Cheryl Perkins, Founder and President, Innovationedge

Companies these days cannot afford to stand still! Cheryl Perkins, Founder and President of Innovationedge and a visionary business leader, will share best practices of companies who are defining and implementing new business models. These models are used to create new pathways to value and deliver growth in today’s business climate.

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Podcast S3E53: Alex Osterwalder – Creating an invincible company

Idea to Value

We speak about what it takes to create an invincible company, with a particular emphasis on the importance of a balanced innovation portfolio. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:30 – How the Business Model Canvas (BMC) was created 20 years ago, to help companies innovate. The importance of killing projects.

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Is Your Company Culture Anti-Innovation?

IdeaScale

When we looked at that response, we were wondering how a company culture might be inhospitable to innovation and we looked at some of our most commonly reported customer reported obstacles for an answer. Does senior leadership reward new bets and do they celebrate lessons learned from ideas that fail to launch?

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.