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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 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 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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The author of nineteen books, Chip’s newest book (with Marshall Goldsmith) is Managers As Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning. He is also the author of Wired and Dangerous (with John Patterson) and Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service (with Ron…
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The term “gazelle” refers to the classic entrepreneur of myth and reality, someone who starts a new business venture (or a new way of doing business) and aims for it to explode into a white-hot phenomenon such as Home Depot,…
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Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags Linda Rottenberg Portfolio/Penguin “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Tennyson’s Ulysses Most people are caught up in what James O’Toole so aptly characterizes as…
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The term “gazelle” refers to the classic entrepreneur of myth and reality, someone who starts a new business venture (or a new way of doing business) and aims for it to explode into a white-hot phenomenon such as Home Depot,…
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What’s the core business?
Home Depot was founded in 1978. The way I heard it, as soon as it had a total of 25 stores, the co-founders convened a meeting for all managers to discuss where it had been, where it was, and where…
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