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Dinosaurs, Big Consulting Firms and Disruptive Innovation

N2Growth Blog

Christensen calls this “ disruptive innovation ” and gives examples as diverse as the personal computer industry, milkshakes, and steel minimills. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION? Earlier examples of disruptive innovations: telephone (disrupted the telegraph). ebooks disrupting the giant book publishing houses.

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New eBook—Top 10 Barriers Communicators Face: How to Get Your Leader on Board with Internal Communication

leaderCommunicator

Those trained in communication know that all the benefits that come with effective employee engagement—shared understanding, productivity, innovation, achievement of business goals—can only become a reality when a leader prioritizes communication.

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New eBook - Cutting to Win: 6 Steps for Getting Employees on Your Side During Cost Cuts

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Instead, cutting costs is seen as a smart business practice, designed to help a company prioritize so it can innovate, invest smartly and grow. Scores of the Fortune 500 clients we’ve worked with at The Grossman Group are cutting costs, and often that’s not because of financial issues.

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When Employee Engagement Efforts Fall Short, Try These 4 Steps

Michael Lee Stallard

They engage in creative conversations that fuel innovation. Download the 100 Ways to Connect ebook to see many of them. Have your leaders follow the directions in the ebook and the exercise will give them practical and immediate actions to get started creating a Connection Culture for the groups they lead.

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Quantifying a Culture of Innovation

Examining five years of anonymous data from over 6 million users in 170+ countries, Spigit has discovered that a culture of innovation can be measured – with a 99% statistical confidence level – by a metric called "ideation rate." Download the eBook now for an in-depth look at this groundbreaking study.

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Special Leadership Savings at Amazon.com

Coaching Tip

Special Limited Time Offer for purchase of this new eBook on Amazon.com: Wednesday, June 11 th beginning at 11AM Eastern U.S. Note: When ordering this new eBook on Amazon.com, if you don’t have a Kindle tablet or eReader, just download Amazon’s free “Kindle for PC” to read this book on your computer. Time Zone: Only $.99.

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The Innovation Formula

Coaching Tip

How do I create a culture for innovation? A new book, The Innovation Formula , is an guide where the latest scientific research tells us very clearly what works and what doesn't. This book aims to remedy that--to give you a clear, practical understanding of what has been scientifically proven to create a culture of innovation.