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Leading to Disruptive Innovation

LDRLB

Disruptive innovation is no longer the exception, it’s the rule. In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Adaptive Planning. Savoring Surprise.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and go, the rules are changeable, and there is no defined endpoint. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P.

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Does Diversity Actually Increase Creativity?

Harvard Business Review

Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. But is there actually any evidence in support of this idea? Jennifer Maravillas for HBR.

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Good Bosses Switch Between Two Leadership Styles

Harvard Business Review

When facing tight deadlines, dominance is needed to generate rapid and well-coordinated responses. And during times of organizational crisis or change, dominance may be needed to manage various stakeholders with opposing viewpoints. Which situations call for prestige? Listening is as important as talking for prestigious leaders.

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M-Prize Lessons and How to Get to Management 2.0

Harvard Business Review

We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. According to Management 2.0 Rite-Solutions' innovation engine demonstrates that leaders are willing to take direction from the crowd. Maximize peer connections.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have had more than a few engagements that have come about as a result of the need to repair the carnage and devastation that occurred from the implementation of advice put forth, or the ideas generated by a well intentioned yet unqualified “coach”.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. Both rational experimentation and design thinking provide cover for this political calculus.