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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

And finally, business model innovation is getting the recognition it deserves. That’s why I was thrilled when my friend and one of business model innovation’s gurus, Saul Kaplan , wrote a must read book sharing his real world experiences - The Business Model Innovation Factory. 1] Kaplan, Saul.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture.

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Create Your Own Luck

Mills Scofield

You know how much I believe in serendipity & random collisions (a la Saul Kaplan !). “ Innovation is serendipity, so you don''t know what people will make. He began his career as a Macroeconomist for the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Meet Samir Rath (bio below). She is so lucky. Twitter: @Samir_Rath.

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Creating A Purpose-Driven Corporation

The Horizons Tracker

Despite this, there is a growing desire for corporations to be better stakeholders, with Wharton’s Sarah Kaplan outlining as much in her latest book, The 360° Corporation. In it, she outlines a rupture in the traditional career path that sees someone earn well before giving back through volunteering or charitable giving.

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Will the Sun Shine Bright on Kentucky Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

At his invitation, I went this week to the state's two largest cities, Lexington and Louisville, to talk with local entrepreneurs and community leaders about what it takes to spur more innovation and entrepreneurship in a region. Think about the forms an "Innovation Story Studio" for the community could take. You have to lead.

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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When Generalists Are Better Than Specialists, and Vice Versa

Harvard Business Review

After all, every innovation somehow recombines or reimagines things that already exist. For example, researchers Sarah Kaplan and Keyvan Vakili found that recombining ideas from one domain of specialization, as opposed to multiple domains, led to more novel innovations in the area of nanotubes.