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Many of us in business have heard the popular aphorism, "People are your greatest asset." Some of us may even believe it. But is this sentiment reflected in our corporate cultures and the way our leaders lead? Delete the scoop?
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I normally write about companies navigating their way toward sustainability, covering topics such as how to save money or drive green innovation. But I like to step back periodically and look at why companies need to go green. Delete the scoop?
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Advancing technologies and their swift adoption are upending traditional business models. Senior executives need to think strategically about how to prepare their organizations for the challenging new environment. Delete the scoop?
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What is the genetic structure of a high-performance team? We've identified 10 core innovation strategies of new product leaders. Delete the scoop?
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Entrepreneurs are the real jobs engines. That means the only sensible jobs plan is one that helps start-ups grow into Fortune 500 companies. Here is that plan. Delete the scoop?
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And his advice still applies today.... Delete the scoop?
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Strategy can’t be insular, it must interact, be questioned, embellished, augmented and sometimes thrown away. Delete the scoop?
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The entrepreneur and process methods -- two ways of dealing with the problems created by a business segregated into extreme phenotypes... Delete the scoop?
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Venture philanthropy can look hideously complex. It may involve private investors, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and community groups—not to mention the recipients of the funding. Delete the scoop?
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Drawing from 20 years of experience at Apple, Greg Joswiak, the company's vice president of worldwide iOS product marketing, has explained four keys to the company's success Delete the scoop?
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In an interesting talk at the Gartner Symposium ITExpo 2011 on October 16-20, 2011, Clayton Christensen explains why the basic thinking taught in business schools and promulgated by consultants is killing innovation and the US economy. Delete the scoop?
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In the past decade, firms have been praised for ideas. Experts have celebrated the power of brainstorming and idea-generation techniques. Eureka light bulbs have populated the covers of many books. 
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What the world needs is ideas in action. What are the qualities, traits, behaviours of visionary leaders? How do we cultivate these much needed leaders who are able to take these ideas generated in the divergent thinking stage and converge them into a vision and that can inspire their people to move forward and take action. Then only can we see the full spectrum of creativity working. Do you know someone who is a visionary leader? What makes them so? Delete the scoop?
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What ingrained habits are linked to a designer's ability to turn original ideas into innovations?. Delete the scoop?
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Big pharma needs to rethink their business model, which will only happen when they unlearn traditional management and enter the age of customer capitalism. Delete the scoop?
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A lot of problems in business could be solved if we could align the interests of employees and managers with owners. Delete the scoop?
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Michael Woelk, CEO of Picarro, which provides highly accurate measurement of gasses that give its customers visual confirmation of data they never had before. Delete the scoop?
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“It’s not about the pretty,” says one design-thinking practitioner, “it’s about the productive.” Delete the scoop?
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The creation of NeXT and the sequential pivoting of the company from hardware to software to acquisition is one of the most fascinating episodes in the career of Steve Jobs. Unfortunately, ... Delete the scoop?
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The Formula for Change was created by Richard Beckhard and David Gleicher... This formula provides a model to assess the relative strengths affecting the likely success or otherwise of organisational change programs. Delete the scoop?
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What’s your best advice for the next generation of young and ambitious account planners and strategists? Delete the scoop?
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It may not be a silver bullet, but design thinking can yield results if companies manage their expectations and commit themselves to implementing good ideas. Delete the scoop?
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Getting back to my series of posts on understanding economics when scarcity is removed from some goods, I wanted to address the ridiculousness of the "can't compete with free" statements that people love to throw out. Delete the scoop?
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"The basic concept of the book is that innovation cannot be considered the domain of research institutions or companies - if it ever really was." Delete the scoop?
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