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Lateral Thinking in the Fight Against Crime. The Northern Bank Robbery Story.

Destination Innovation

On the night of Sunday 19 December 2004, two groups of armed men, masquerading as police officers, arrived at the homes of Christopher Ward and Kevin McMullan in Belfast. The authorities could not catch the robbers or recover all of the loot but they did manage to make much of the haul worthless.

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4 Things That I Learned About Change From The Orange Revolution

Digital Tonto

The Orange Revolution in 2004 changed that. Related posts: Change Is Never Simple Or Linear—You Need To Tap Into Networks And Ecosystems Forget About Influence And Change Management, It’s Time To Lead A Revolution! So why worry or complain about things that you couldn’t do anything about anyway? Change Isn’t About Persuasion.

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Self-Righteousness Isn’t A Strategy

Digital Tonto

I first noticed this in the aftermath of the Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004. So we feel the urge to lash out and silence opposition. That almost guarantees a failure to survive victory. Having overcome a falsified election, we were so triumphant that we failed to see the gathering storm.

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The Geek who Changed the World

Destination Innovation

He also built a prototype called ‘Enquire’ In 1989 Berners Lee published a paper called ‘Information Management: A Proposal’ in which he suggested combining hypertext with the Internet, to create a system for sharing and distributing information not just within a company, but globally.

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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

The next year, Viktor Yanukovych, the corrupt thug whose attempt to steal a presidential election sparked the Orange Revolution in 2004, was voted into power in a legitimate election. I remember walking past the kiosks that traded currency everyday, tracking Ukraine’s Hryvnia fall heralding an even more uncertain future.

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65% of Venture Capital-backed deals fail to return investment, and only 4% make substantial returns

Idea to Value

The chart above shows the financial outcomes for 21,640 different financing deals between 2004 and 2013 (note that these were the total number of deals, not individual companies). And this scares a lot of managers. However, new data from Correlation Ventures shows just how risky investing in new companies can be.

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Five Myths That Kill Change and Transformation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell I first became interested in transformation in the fall of 2004. I was managing a leading news organization in Kyiv, Ukraine when the Orange Revolution broke out. It was an amazing thing to witness and … Continue reading →

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