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Spotting Where Innovations Are In The Diffusion Lifecycle

The Horizons Tracker

In 1962 Everett Rogers famously described the journey innovations go on as they travel from obscurity to mass market success and through to obsolescence. It’s a process that remains largely observed to this day and being able to spot where an innovation is on the lifecycle is pretty valuable. Spreading change.

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Assessing Ballmer’s Leadership

Michael Lee Stallard

Check out technology critic David Pogue’s “ How Ballmer Missed the Tidal Shifts in Tech ” which appeared on the New York Times’ website on August 24. Some years ago I gave a presentation on Connection Cultures at the Innovation Council.

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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost.

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Patents, Copyrights and Innovation, Oh My!

Coaching Tip

By enabling the nearly costless distribution of perfect copies of music, books, and movies, digital technologies intensified a behavioral enigma that always lay at the heart of copyright law. Source: Roger Parloff , senior editor, FORTUNE, July 23, 2012. These works are what economists call public goods.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 10/14/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Mankins Michael Lui Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Ray Bradbury Roger Martin Rotman on Design Spreecast stop and do something else” Sven Smit Tamara Samoylova TED The Good Struggle The New York Time the secret to happiness” Tom Kelley Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer' Roberto Michael C.

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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

The company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation. They hired an expensive consulting firm to design and install millions of dollars’ worth of new technologies. We recommended a comprehensive culture change process.

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The Difference Between Great Leaders And Posers

N2Growth Blog

As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “ you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em. Be careful however not to fall into the trap of “me too” innovation – don’t copy; create. There are a few times in the life of every professional where staggering opportunities will present themselves.