Sat.Aug 27, 2011 - Fri.Sep 02, 2011

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Air-cover: Innovation's secret ingredient

Bill Fischer

Among the leadership traits which have made Steve Jobs so effective as an innovator has been the ability to create an inspiring vision for talented people to work towards and then get out of their way so that they could make full-use of their talents in pursuit of this vision. [.].

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What Would it Take to Be the Apple of Your Industry?

Bill Fischer

Amidst all of the well-deserved praise for what Steve Jobs accomplished in his all two brief stints as CEO of Apple, thereshouldalso bea search for lessons that might be applied elsewhere: what made Apple so extraordinarily successful? And, should we/could wedo it in our industry? If we define strategy [.].