Qualities of Leading Innovators: On Opportunities
Leading innovators are leaders who have demonstrated common qualities in successfully achieving breakthrough innovations that have changed their organizations, and in some cases, the world. Across several countries and industries, leading innovators have exhibited...
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Simple Innovations: Where to Start?
“Any seemingly grand idea can be divided into an infinite series of smaller, previously known ideas.” –Scott Berkun, The Myths of Innovation John—not really his name but to protect the “innocent”—a co-worker of mine many years ago, taught me a quick lesson on...
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The “funny” paths of change: Disrupting education
Mobile and other technologies will continue to intensify the competition challenging education's conventional delivery platforms and methods. Several years ago, many doubted the prospects of online education. The claims that a quality education could best be achieved...
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Culture or Climate: Where Do I Start?
"The mistake that distorts aiming and clouds leadership action is that many leaders confuse climate with culture." A few weeks ago a good friend and leader highlighted to me some good points about his problems with addressing culture in his firm. First, he noted the...
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Leadership & Big Data Analytics
“Data analysis is an aid to thinking and not a replacement for it.” –Richard Shillington One of the ideas of the 4th Industrial Revolution is that we’ve entered the age where wisdom is much more valued and impactful than mere isolated knowledge or experience without...
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The Transformation of Human Life
We, humans, overwhelmed with the sea of data that machines identify and produce for us, we intensely focus but have a hard time seeing, even when the thing is right within proximity. There has been quite the AI and big data analytics hype all...
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The Future Workforce and Its Leadership Implications
"For businesses to capitalize on new opportunities, they will need to put talent development and future workforce strategy front and centre to their growth. Firms can no longer be passive consumers of ready-made human capital." ~Future of Workforce Strategy, World...
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Urgent! Need Leaders w/Strategic Thinking & Strategic Planning Skills (Part 2)
Last week we discussed the difference between strategic thinking and strategic planning. We also used the example of Airb&b to frame the discussion about strategic thinking. This week, we expand on that post. Specifically, we direct our attention to four core...
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Urgent! Need Leaders w/Strategic Thinking & Strategic Planning Skills (Part 1)
Strategic thinking is not strategic planning. This is a common confusion in organizations. Matter of fact, this confusion is one of the reasons why organizations cannot improve strategic thinking and behave in ways that isolate strategic thinking to just a few people...
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