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The Power of Little Ideas: A book review by Bob Morris

November 18, 2022

The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation David Robertson with Kent Lineback Harvard Business Review Press (May 2017) Do innovators have only two choices: innovate small incrementally or innovate big disruptively? “There is another option.” At…

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The Power of Little Ideas: A book review by Bob Morris

March 30, 2022

The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation David Robertson with Kent Linebac k Harvard Business Review Press (May 2017) Do innovators have only two choices: innovate small incrementally or innovate big disruptively? “There is another option.”…

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The Power of Little Ideas: A book review by Bob Morris

December 10, 2019

The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation David Robertson with Kent Lineback Harvard Business Review Press (May 2017) Do innovators have only two choices: innovate small incrementally or innovate big disruptively? “There is another option.” In…

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Welcome to the reality distortion field

January 30, 2019

The term “reality distortion field” was first used by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs’s charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Macintosh project. Tribble said that the term came…

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The Power of Little Ideas: A book review by Bob Morris

April 30, 2017

The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation David Robertson with Kent Lineback Harvard Business Review Press (May 2017) Do innovators have only two choices: innovate small incrementally or innovate big disruptively? “There is another option.” In…

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Marty Neumeier on marketing’s “new realities”: An interview by Bob Morris

January 13, 2016

Marty Neumeier began his career as a designer, but soon added writing and strategy to his repertoire, working variously as an identity designer, art director, copywriter, journalist, package designer, magazine publisher, and brand consultant. By the mid-1990s he had developed…

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Andrew Hargadon on How Breakthrough Ideas Happen: An interview by Bob Morris

December 22, 2015

Andrew Hargadon is a Professor of Technology Management and Charles J. Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of California at Davis. The primary focus of his research is on the effective management of innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly in the…

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Unbundling the corporation

August 1, 2015

Occasionally, I provide an excerpt from a classic article, in this instance one co-authored by John Hagel III and Marc Singer for the McKinsey Quarterly (in 2000), published by McKinsey & Company. They explain how and why the forces that…

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Kai Hammerich: An interview by Bob Morris

April 11, 2014

Based in London, Kai Hammerich heads the European Leadership & Succession Practice for Russell Reynolds Associates. He has conducted numerous chairman, board, CEO and c-suite assignments for major Nordic, European and global technology clients as well as for some the largest Nordic…

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How Do Innovators Think?

February 7, 2013

What makes visionary entrepreneurs such as Apple’s Steve Jobs, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Ebay’s Pierre Omidyar and Meg Whitman, and P&G’s A.G. Lafley tick? In a question-and-answer session with HBR contributing editor Bronwyn Fryer, Professors Jeff Dyer of Brigham Young University…

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