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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Even the swiftest of fast followers will struggle to not choke on the dust of first movers in today’s world. The post Leadership and Digital Transformation appeared first on The Executive Hub. If you’re stuck in the purgatory of a legacy based business model, don’t transform – reinvent.

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5 Leadership Lessons: The Velocity Manifesto

Leading Blog

The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.” So all you have to do is look at the industry you are in and identify all the things that are wrong with it….Next, Next, you must begin to study how the solution to that problem will impact you, and find out whether you have any ability to solve it on your own.

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Is Blogging Dead?

N2Growth Blog

Many successful bloggers today were not necessarily first-movers, but rather fast-followers able to leap frog the early adopters. For those of you in leadership positions, particularly at the chief executive level, blogging is an incredibly powerful platform, which should only be ignored at your peril. Where Are We Now?

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Digital Transformation Or Digital Free Fall: What Every CEO Must Know

N2Growth Blog

The speed of technology advances in the market are making the old paradigm of first mover versus fast follower largely irrelevant – every business must now become some version of a first mover. Digital transformation is really more of a leadership, culture, strategy, and talent issue than a technology issue.

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How To Think About Innovation Differently

Joseph Lalonde

Move fast, follow momentum – The future is always changing. You are able to take challenges on because you see that there’s nothing to lose. If we think we are big and significant, our risks will be small and insignificant. Bobby is frequently asked what the future in 5 years will look like.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

I wrote a couple of months ago about China's leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. But don't count them out for long; if there's one thing Chinese companies are good at, it's implementing a "fast follower" strategy. That's what China's Hi-Tech Fair is doing. and the West for best practices.

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Verizon, the iPhone, and the Power of Second Chances

Harvard Business Review

There is still a debate in strategy circles about whether it is better to be the first mover or a fast follower, and whether missing out on the first wave of disruptive innovation means falling behind forever. But one thing is certain: Learning from a missed opportunity and then innovating beyond it helps anyone get back in the game.