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The basket of bad ideas scenario

Jeffrey Phillips

A good movie, The Big Short, noted that this same philosophy, mixing up a number of bad loans into a new package, is what caused the sub-prime lending disaster. This concept of a basket of weak or bad ideas is not practiced just in Hollywood, however. You could basically predict every scene, what key actors would say or do.

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Cultivating Success: Exploring the Link Between Organizational Culture and Business Performance

Leapfrogging

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. Conversely, a weak or negative culture can hinder business performance, stifle growth, and lead to organizational dysfunction.

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Working together to shape innovation for meaningful change

Paul Hobcraft

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. Providing a Range of Insights : Objectives : Foster a diverse and creative mindset to generate a variety of perspectives.

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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements. Then, a problem or opportunity is defined, a team designated, and the proposition is defined as an innovation activity.

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Will you shape innovation, or will it shape you?

Jeffrey Phillips

Through creativity and innovation, from the earliest origin of man, we have been creating and shaping tools - fire, sharpened sticks for tools and weapons, the wheel and thousands upon thousands of other tools and devices. If you doubt this is true, look no further than the iPhone. And Facebook is just one example.

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3 Dimensions of Innovation: the 23 Capabilities your company needs to succeed

Idea to Value

In fact, innovation and creativity are cited as being some of the most important skills and differentiators listed by CEOs which will determine their future success. And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings.

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How Ajay Banga can “write a new playbook” and become the World Bank’s most consequential President

Christensen Institute

sits at the helm of the world’s most prominent development institution. “The process is overly elaborate and subject to multiple review mechanisms that not only cost valuable years but erode staff ambition,” he said, adding to a “trust deficit” among developing countries.