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We Can’t Stop Disruption

Moves the Needle

We must embrace disruption in order to make it work for all of us. At every level of the organization, people need to look at themselves and ask, “How do I disrupt myself in order to deal with the new reality?”. New Leadership. Disruption is happening, we can’t stop it. New Behavior. They must walk the talk.

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Is What’s Good For General Electric Good For America?

Digital Tonto

Instead of layoffs, he’s investing in lean manufacturing methods that put front-line workers at the center and instead of using acquisitions to fuel growth, he’s broken the company up to help focus on operational excellence. Once again, what’s going on at GE might be a sign of the times. first appeared on Digital Tonto.

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Back to Basics: The Innovation Alphabet

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You know ALL the innovation tools and frameworks: Design Thinking Lean Startup Disruptive Innovation But knowing and doing are two different things. When I first learned Jobs to be Done, it felt painfully obvious, exactly like the customer research I did for five years at P&G.

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Applying lessons from pandemic prepared schools

Christensen Institute

A shared vision for 21st-century student success enabled these schools to effectively utilize “leadership tools” to rally and empower school stakeholders to solve emergent challenges. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. Leadership tools only work when the people in the organization have shared goals and purpose.

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The Critically Important Innovation Narrative

Paul Hobcraft

The care within designing the narrative is you do not want contradictory narratives; they need to be in pursuit of complementary narratives. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

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The Gremlin Strategy, or How to Ward Off Disruption

Matthew May

After reading his 1999 book High Velocity Leadership , we invited Brian to guest speak about the Mars Pathfinder project, and he soon he became a regular fixture in the University of Toyota’s “lean” leadership curriculum. As Brian tells it in High Velocity Leadership : They were certain but entirely wrong.

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New Innovation Books for 2021 & Beyond

InnovationTraining.org

Check out our list of design thinking books to read. The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. Innovator’s DNA, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age. Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate?