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The Value of Vision Series – Daniel Burrus

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to converse with Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. They kept solving those unsolvable problems,” Armstrong added, “until one day, there I was—walking the lunar surface.”. Making the Impossible Possible. And here we are, a little over fifty years later.

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The September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival NFL Kick-off Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Sharlyn Lauby , from HR Bartender, gets a big hit with Your Company’s Next Innovation Will Be the Result of Empathy. Matrix organizations are becoming more common as organizations grow larger, become more complex, and/or enter global markets. Miami Dolphins. I’ve seen a couple of blog posts recently about the need to restore empathy.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. Steven Armstrong of StevenArmstrong.ca. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing. Keep moving! Document your life.

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business Review

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. Armstrong’s Killer App. Armstrong’s Killer App. Then he paused.

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To Make Innovation Stick, Try Trying

Harvard Business Review

Why do some innovations flourish while others flounder? Atul Gawande tackles this question in The New Yorker , using the medical field — arguably one of the places where innovation is most important, given its life-saving capabilities — as ground zero. You have to use mentorship to make an innovative idea the norm.

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What Your Moonshot Can Learn from the Apollo Program

Harvard Business Review

” The notion of moonshots is a hugely appealing idea, whether you are an enterprise working on a market innovation, a nonprofit organization tackling societal problems, or a government trying to govern better. How can we get the moonshot formula right to unlock this approach to groundbreaking innovation?

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Loud and Clear: Six Tips for Communicating in a Way That Truly.

Strategy Driven

Think about it this way: You likely spend countless hours collaborating and innovating to put forth really good ideas. For example, Neil Armstrong used the six hours and forty minutes between his moon landing and first step to craft his historic statement. Use catchy words. Take time to carefully craft a few messages with catchy words.

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