December, 2011

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South to the Pole: Leadership Wins the Race

Bill Fischer

Amundsen and his team at the South Pole; Image via Wikipedia On December 14, 1911, one hundred years ago, Roald Amundsen, and a small team of four others, accomplished what no one else had ever done before: they reached the South Pole. At the time, this was truly terra incognito: one [.

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Innovation Resolutions 2012

Bill Fischer

Vincent Van Gogh, "The Sower," 1888. Image via Wikipedia Innovators all! That should be a natural, legitimate, goal for all organizations, but earlier this month, when I asked thirty-five senior managers from a well-known, successful, European consumer goods company "how many of them had innovation responsibilities?" the response was less than 20%. [.