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Entries Tagged as 'Innovation'

Change is a Constant

July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Does it make you feel old or young to know that the Walkman is 30 years old?
At any rate, the story of Sony’s Walkman is a valuable business lesson and I like the way Peter Drucker put it:
“Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.”
Wharton’s Knowledge Today has [...]

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Tags: Change · Innovation · Leadership · Peter Drucker

Stop the Stupidity of Worrying

April 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Keep perspective: “More people are killed by deer than sharks, but you don’t see park rangers running around like nutcases” (Seth Godin).
Forget about panicking and stop the stupidity of worrying – this is my opinion on what to do about the worst recession since the Great Depression and the pending pandemic of swine flu. Once [...]

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Tags: Innovation · Leadership · Problems Solving · Seth Godin · To Do

Leaders and Entrepreneurship

March 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

 
Leaders and Entrepreneurship 
Entrepreneurship is a special skill set. Some great entrepreneurs are not-so-great leaders or managers, but successful leaders need to master some of the entrepreneurship skill set. There is a “new” word that is thrown around – Intrapreneurship – to represent the entrepreneurial activities internal to an organization. I don’t particularly like this term [...]

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Tags: Albert Einstein · Bill Gates · Entrepreneurship · Innovation · Jeff Bezos · Leadership · Management · Steve Jobs