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David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
As I was struggling to make sense of Kirk’s story, I stumbled across a new business book that had been making waves. It was titled Little Bets, and it was written by a former venture capitalist named Peter Sims.2 When Sims studied a variety of successful innovators, from Steve Jobs to Chris Rock to Frank Gehry, as well as innovative companies, such
... See moreCal Newport • So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Is he irreplaceable? Is he the Steve Jobs of JPMorgan Chase?
Duff McDonald • Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase
Skunk Works, cowrit-ten by Leo Janos).
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
innovation is one of the most overlooked aspects of setting strategy. Make sure that your company is responsive to its own internal creative output. Examine what new innovations and new ideas are bubbling up in product development, research, design, and marketing. List all possible innovations that might come to fruition. Obtain estimates on how
... See moreJim Collins • Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0
What is most important to you and why? When it's time to create ideas, whom do you go to first? Imagine yourself at eighteen. What would that person tell you today? Where do the good ideas come from within your company or team? What relationships are you in that challenge you? Why are they challenging? What do you do? Who are you? If you could
... See moreAndy Stefanovich • Look at More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth, and Change
Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From (2010).
Dan Hill • Dark Matter and Trojan Horses. A Strategic Design Vocabulary.
From the top of the mountain called Success, these new ideas and duct-taped prototypes tend to look more like distractions than golden opportunities.
Larry Osborne • Sticky Leaders
This doesn’t mean that if you weren’t born with these traits that you’re shut out from innovative and creative leadership. Far from it. But it does mean that if you are going to foster a spirit of innovation and an openness to change within your organization, you will have to find ways to identify the fledgling innovators and change agents in your
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