Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Jul 6, 2012
Article of the Week
Make Your Team More Innovative, Instantly (Inc.)
Big Idea: For most people, trying to be innovative feels nearly impossible. Lisa Bodell, the founder and CEO of futurethink and the author of Kill the Company, provides a technique referred to as “Kill a Stupid Rule”…
Make Your Team More Innovative, Instantly
By Jeff Haden
Inc.
July 5, 2012
Big Idea: For most people, trying to be innovative feels nearly impossible. Lisa Bodell, the founder and CEO of futurethink and the author of Kill the Company, provides a technique referred to as “Kill a Stupid Rule” that engages the workforce, jumpstarts innovation, and allows people…
Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Jun 29, 2012
Article of the Week
The Difference between Strategy and Innovation (Innovation Excellence)
Big Idea: Strategy and innovation are quite distinct, requiring vastly different people, skill sets and processes. The conundrum is that every business needs both. This articles presents a brief guide about what each needs to succeed,…
The Difference between Strategy and Innovation
By Greg Satell
Innovation Excellence
June 29, 2012
Big Idea: Strategy and innovation are quite distinct, requiring vastly different people, skill sets and processes. The conundrum is that every business needs both. This articles presents a brief guide about what each needs to succeed, where to deploy them, who should drive them,…
Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Jun 22, 2012
Article of the Week
A Beekeeper’s Perspective on Risk (HBR Blog Network)
Big Idea: Michael O’Malley presents an interesting perspective on how society could learn from beehives and improve risk management capabilities. Beehives are organizations that naturally got things right. They are structured for consistent long-term growth and…
A Beekeeper’s Perspective on Risk
By Michael O’Malley
June 20, 2012
Big Idea: Michael O’Malley presents an interesting perspective on how society could learn from beehives and improve risk management capabilities. Beehives are organizations that naturally got things right. They are structured for consistent long-term growth and the prevention of severe loss due to unpredictable environmental…
Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Jun 15, 2012
Article of the Week
To Innovate, Play with Pieces off the Game Board (HBR Blog Network)
Big Idea: Truly game-changing institutional innovations are unlikely to come about from internalizing the rules and making the moves that allowed others to win. The most promising pathway to disruptive innovation is…
To Innovate, Play with Pieces Off the Game Board
By Philip Auerswald
June 11, 2012
Big Idea: Truly game-changing institutional innovations are unlikely to come about from internalizing the rules and making the moves that allowed others to win. The most promising pathway to disruptive innovation is to look around for underutilized assets—those game pieces off the board—and to configure…
Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Jun 8, 2012
Article of the Week
The CFO in the Corporate Brain (CFO.com)
Big Idea: A Nobel Prize winning economist has some ideas that help explain how a CFO should function as part of the decision-making team. Given that people are often convinced by stories and not statistics, the CFO…
The CFO in the Corporate Brain
By Andrew Sawers
June 7, 2012
Big Idea: A Nobel Prize winning economist has some ideas that help explain how a CFO should function as part of the decision-making team. Given that people are often convinced by stories and not statistics, the CFO must master the numbers but also understand and…
