Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

It is the story of Nadia bright and adventurous meerkat who is part of a mature clan with over 150 members. The story parallels the evolution of organizations of all types as they grow and mature. They begin to cope with their size by cementing in systems, structures and policies, that inadvertently kill speed, agility and innovation.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

When it comes to innovation, it is no different. Jeff DeGraff writes in The Innovation Code , “ Your dominant worldview is your biggest strength —the quality that makes you stand out from other people.” DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For enduring success, this framework must incorporate elements that foster continuity and innovation. Combined, mentorship and coaching expedite the maturation of high-potential leaders, ensuring they can effectively guide the organization from the very start of their tenure.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Today’s post on the SmartBlog for Leadership is by Mike Myatt, writer, speaker and author, offering advice on the topics of leadership, strategy and innovation. “Leaders and their ability to change their mind demonstrates humility, confidence and maturity.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Embarking on your own AI journey While your goal is to be innovative, relevant, competitive, and forward-looking, your approach should be to bend but not break your team and your operations. Meanwhile, Crawlers and Bots scour the web and analyze customer reviews, competition, and social sentiment.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

by Braden Kelley Is our organization a productive place for creating innovation? How does our organization’s innovation capability compare to that of other organizations? The only way to get better at innovation, is to first define what innovation means. Your organization must have […].

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Surrender fosters collaboration, encourages innovation and enables possibility. When what you seek is to build into others more than glorifying self you have developed a level of leadership maturity that values surrender over control. Controlling leaders create bottlenecks rather than increase throughput.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Moreover, depending on how a business is positioned, where it is in its maturation lifecycle, or what its current financial condition looks like, will dictate which factors may be most important to measure. Complicating matters further is the reality that each industry, sector, vertical, and micro-vertical all have unique business drivers.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 26, 2021

When people acquire new skills, master new capabilities, and become more mature, their personal and professional lives are enhanced. During the hour-long webinar, you’ll discover: How an ideal process of learning is also the way you change, make decisions, solve problems, and innovate. How to identify your unique learning style.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

Organizations are born, they mature, they age, and they die. They begin with an innovative idea—even developing beyond all expectations—but eventually they begin to show signs of aging. Claudio Feser writes in Serial Innovators, “Some firms become blinded by success and begin to resist external views and challenges.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 15, 2016

Most mature organizations have a built-in tendency to kill off anything agile, innovative, and entrepreneurial — which often is exactly what’s needed to stay ahead of today’s ever-increasing pace of change in the […]

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

Furthermore, you are likely just as familiar with my position that a static business, which doesn’t constantly innovate around the changing needs of the marketplace is the same thing as a dying business. The reality is in maturing and complex market environments clients’ demand more from their service providers. I think not.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

The words innovation and entrepreneurship became synonymous in our language, and the place we see this the most is in universities and business schools. Why is being an innovator means I have to launch a startup company? Can’t I be an innovator in a mature company? But why are we linking these two words?

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 30, 2019

As a technologist it’s important to know the maturity of a technology. Like people, technologies are born, they become children, then adolescents, then adults and then they die. And like with people, the character and behavior of technologies change as they grown and age. A fledgling technology may have a lot of potential, but it.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Realizing the path to innovation would require revolutionary new thinking; all three leaders grasped that it would also take a new way of coalescing and harnessing talent. Reading Collective Genius , The Innovators , Creativity, Inc. Sourcing Innovation Collaboratively. Larry Page at Google also did it.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Surrender: fosters collaboration, encourages innovation and enables possibilities. When what you seek is to build into others more than glorifying self you have developed a level of leadership maturity that values surrender over control. Controlling leaders create bottlenecks rather than increase throughput.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

By Tim Kippley: Jeff Bezos, one of the planet’s greatest innovators, once said that: “You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas and senior executives [that] encourage ideas.” ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. I have long felt that companies can’t survive without innovating.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Value-driven organizations thrive in this new economy because they promote trust, open communication, diversity and inclusion, thus making fertile ground for innovation. We can see many of these examples on the market; some even developed with Chief Innovation, Chief Impact, and Chief Sustainability Officer roles on their executive boards.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 29, 2013

My hopes turned to action and my convictions matured and grew into values. I’ve teamed up with industry leaders and partner companies to invite a small group of students interested in design, business development, social innovation, and technology to execute a one-year experiential education.

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Leading Blog

JULY 24, 2014

Enterprises go through four stages of maturity —customer validation (a product or service that someone is willing to pay for), operational validation (deliver and satisfy the customers), financial validation (financial security under changing market and competitive conditions), self-sustainability (creating a process of innovation that enables the (..)

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Discover how to identify your organization’s brand champions and internal advocates and leverage their passion and talent; and enable an OPEN (Ordinary People | Extraordinary Network) circle of collaborators to innovate, solve complex problems and achieve a common goal. How should we deal with it?

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

It inspired me not to find more way to kill creativity, but rather to understand how can established companies un-kill creativity and out-innovate startups. Believe it or not--it was an inspiring article for me. Continue reading →

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

They are built to change and innovate. No matter how smart or talented a person is, there’s always room for growth, development, and continued maturation. If you don’t challenge people’s minds, they’ll leave you for someone/someplace that will. They NEED to contribute by putting their fingerprints on design.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It is my opinion that when you start to define your personal success by the value you add to the lives of others you have arrived as a mature human being who possesses true influence and has become a person of significance. I concur that it is of no use to sit in judgment of others, and applaud you for the maturity that position displays.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 2, 2019

To build organizations that are more agile, innovative, adaptive, and high performing in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, Creative leadership is required. It is foundational to courageous truth-telling, getting the best thinking on the table, and innovating creative solutions to challenging problems.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

Guy Raz interviews innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists to create a narrative of their journey from spark to movement in a highly successful podcast on NPR and now a book entitled, How I Built This. T AKING AN IDEA and building it into something tangible. That’s the entrepreneurial journey.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

It is a moniker that signals the pursuit of innovation and rapid change, not a cautious incremental improvement. But, the spirit that blows through the halls of innovative organizations is fanned by leaders with a thirst for learning coupled with a recognition that every great leader today must be a mentor. It as a mark of partnership.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 21, 2024

The study aimed to understand how open innovation platforms affect idea generation and whether the factors people consider for success change as ideas evolve. First, people’s criteria for judging ideas change a lot as the idea matures. Our research furnishes innovation managers with a roadmap,” the researchers conclude. “By

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

But it’s the opposite of what’s needed to drive the things the financial industry needs right now – in particular, innovation. Only 53% of financial employees rate their firm’s ability to innovate: at top-performing companies, this figure is 70%. If one thing stifles innovation, it’s closed minds. Willingness to fail.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Use Innovation Accounting to Drive the Metrics that Matter Most for Your New Venture or Start-Up As the field of innovation management matures, many entrepreneurs and companies have built solid capabilities in design thinking, rapid prototyping, portfolio management, open innovation, and the list goes on.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 4, 2025

2021 marked the re-birth of my original Blogging Innovation blog as a new blog called Human-Centered Change and Innovation. Thanks to an outpouring of support I’ve ignited […]

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 3, 2016

We don’t look at the maturity of an employee idea program by years. We evaluate maturity by using a Maturity Model that uses measurable indicators to show the progression of our clients’ idea programs. Continue reading →

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

HCL Digital & Analytics Customer Experience (CX) Strategy practice lead Danyel Lagow recently published a new white paper titled: 5 Practical Strategies to Boost Your CX Success “Driving a seamless customer experience alongside fundamental business decision-making is indispensable for business … Continue reading →

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Having recently concluded my fourth leadership tenure as “The Innovation Guy” in a corporate setting, I thought I’d share some patterns that seem to emerge when introducing innovation systematically to organizations with low innovation maturity. However, it doesn’t appear to matter whether an.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

If we calm our emotions when we overreact and try to think rationally, we strengthen the mature brain, allowing us to respond wisely and with respect. Listen in as Ralph explains how incivility impacts our brain chemistry and compromises our ability to think, innovate, and perform at work.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The number of activities a CEO takes on can certainly vary based upon skill sets, stage of corporate maturation, and the talent level of the rest of the executive team. I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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