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How Unexpected Connections Can Lead To Surprising New Breakthroughs

Digital Tonto

When I arrived in Palo Alto for a publishing course at Stanford in 2006, I'd never heard of Srdja Popovi or Duncan Wattsbut their stories were about to become tangled up with mine. I was running a sizable digital business, and it seemed that networks were something I should learn about. Over time, I kept digging.

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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

At the same time, there is no shortage of stories of people, teams and companies succeeding under tremendous time pressure to come up with game-changing ideas to solve a problem, produce a piece of art or breakthrough new product. However, above moderate levels of stress, creativity quickly falls.

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Challenging the Assumption of the Status Quo

Innovation Excellence

(A Lesson Learned from Yogurt) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In September 2006, I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, on a temporary assignment with BCG. As one does when arriving somewhere for an extended period, I went to the grocery store to stock my kitchen. Since the grocery store was on the ground floor of my […]

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How Vanguard, Verizon, and Spotify Apply a Product Operating Model at Scale

Planview

Each company achieved significant business improvements: Vanguard increased its technology change rate five-fold while reducing major incidents by 75%. Microservice Architecture: Switching from monolithic applications to microservices made changes faster and more stable, as smaller code units limited the impact of modifications.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

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

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How college presidents can last in the job to create lasting change

Christensen Institute

Instituting and solidifying lasting change at most colleges and universities is not an overnight phenomenon. That’s down from nearly nine years in 2006. Understanding their success has much to teach leaders about how to manage innovation and change. Those individuals’ time in the presidencies have been measured in decades.

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Coaching helps overcome the ten innovation intractables

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation demands new directions – making significant changes to the way the organization is run is very challenging, potentially disrupting and needs thinking through at the top-level well. Changing a culture to become more innovative can be a massive step in structure, organization and policies. Can we learn new approaches to this?