“Yesterday’s dangerous idea is today’s orthodoxy and tomorrow’s cliché”
I am reminded almost every day of the Dawkins observation as I observe the courage of first responders throughout the world who struggle to help those stricken by the coronavirus. Many of these heroines and heroes also become victims and…
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The Risk-Driven Business Model: Four Questions That Will Define Your Company Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine Harvard Business Review Press (2014) “Yesterday’s dangerous idea is today’s orthodoxy and tomorrow’s cliché.” Richard Dawkins According to Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine, “By…
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Challenge the Ordinary: Why Revolutionary Companies Abandon Conventional Mindsets, Question Long-Held Assumptions, and Kill Their Sacred Cows Linda D. Henman Career Press (2014) “Yesterday’s dangerous idea is today’s orthodoxy and tomorrow’s cliché.” — Richard Dawkins I agree with Linda Henman…
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Difference: The one-page method for reimagining your business and reinventing your marketing Bernadette Jiwa The Story of Telling Press How to combine difference thinking with empathy to reveal truth, recognize the opportunity in that truth, and then act on it…
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The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation Josh Linkner Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) If you don’t constantly challenge your status quo, you can be certain that someone else will. In a previous book, Disciplined Dreaming, Josh…
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Orbit-Shifting Innovation: The Dynamics of Ideas that Create History Rajiv Narang and Devika Devaiah KoganPage (2014) A brilliant explanation of what orbit-shifting innovation is and how to make it happen An orbit-shifting innovation is among the most disruptive. As Rajiv…
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The Star Factor: Discover What Your Top Performers Do Differently–and Inspire a New Level of Greatness in All William Seidman and Richard Grbavac AMACOM (2013) How and why to adopt and adapt an Affirmative Leadership Program As William Seidman and…
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The New Corporate Facts of Life: Rethink Your Business and Transform Today’s Challenges into Tomorrow’s Profits Diana Rivenburgh AMACOM (2013) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith The Goldsmith assertion that serves as the title of this…
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Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes G. Shawn Hunter Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2013) How and why innovative leadership must “leverage a culture that will stop at nothing to fix bad ideas and stomp out mediocrity Shawn Hunter wrote…
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Edited by John Brockman Harper Perennial (2007) “Yesterday’s dangerous idea is today’s orthodoxy and tomorrow’s cliché.” — Richard Dawkins According to founder and editor, John Brockman, the Edge Question was first posed in 1998: “What…
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