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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp joined in 2001 and was promoted to CEO three years later at the age of 36. He created a sense of urgency to undertake the changes ahead. Five Sustainable Innovation Practices that saved Lego – Leadership Network. They appointed a new CEO. We’re running out of cash… and likely won’t survive.”

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Covering Innovation My Way

Paul Hobcraft

You do need to find out more of the emerging Work to be done approach as it is a far more dynamic place for innovation to happen.The W ork-to-be-done is focused on connecting to the emerging areas of Organizational need being faced in today’s rapidly changing markets and diminishing resources. Its areas of focus: [link].

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How to Embed Agile Thinking at Every Level of Your Company

CMOE

Companies often have three levels in the management hierarchy: frontline, mid-level, and senior-level leadership. The term agile was coined in the information technology (IT) field in 2001 and was used to refer to a group of methodologies. The best way to do this is by observing changes in employee behavior.

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The Leader of Innovation Paints a Vision of a Better Future

Destination Innovation

in 2001, many people were surprised, including Mulcahy herself. If you want to lead change you have to communicate your vision. She changed the culture and processes in a huge organisation with the power of communication and with clear and decisive actions. Anne Mulcahy. When Anne Mulcahy was appointed CEO of Xerox Corp.

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Mastering the balance: Value networks and the drive for change in K-12 education

Christensen Institute

K-12 education has a perennial hunger for change, improvement and innovation. Across the board, these pressures all call for change management in one form or another. People often think that change is just about getting the right leaders in place and giving them the right incentives to make change happen.

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The digital innovation era calls for new board leadership

Innovation 360 Group

In H1 you need traditional leadership styles, such as the Spiral Staircase (Loewe, Williamson, Chapman and Wood, 2001), focusing optimization of existing business and incremental innovation. Although this is changing as we speak, this is not how we perceive the typical characteristics of traditional boards and board members!