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A Lesson In Innovation From The Red Planet

Tanveer Naseer

In the past week or so, there’s been much discussion and debate over the merits of disruption and with it, how we view and understand what it means to innovate. was the joyous cry that rang out across the central quad at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the night of August 5, 2012. It was innovative and seemingly crazy.

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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. Disney’s existing contract to distribute Pixar films was slated to end in 2006 and Pixar had announced two years earlier it would not renew the arrangement.). It was a bold push towards the future.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. Consider Fuji Photo Film. Cameras went digital and then disappeared into cellphones.

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How the Internet is Shaping Our "Global Brain"

Harvard Business Review

Vint Cerf, considered one of the co-creators of the Internet's architecture, wrote in a 2012 New York Times Op-Ed that "The Internet stands at a crossroads. The benefits of the open and accessible Internet are nearly incalculable and their loss would wreak significant social and economic damage.".

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Ready Player One

Joseph Lalonde

Any time a director tries to translate a New York Bestseller to film, they face an uphill battle. Fans of the book are looking for a faithful book to movie translation. Having never read Ready Player One, I don’t know how faithful the movie adaptation is to the book. Be welcoming and open.

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Five of Steve Jobs's Biggest Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

Like any creative process, any entrepreneur who wants to invent, innovate, or create must be willing to be imperfect and make mistakes in order to learn what works and what does not. As I wrote in Little Bets , when his first store opened in Seattle in 1986, there was non-stop opera music, menus in Italian, and no chairs.

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