Month: February 2013
Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard J. Tellis Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How to avoid or overcome “the incumbent’s curse” to achieve market dominance By nature, books about innovation should contribute something new and/or something…
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Here is another in the CONVERSATIONS AT EDGE series, in this instance a conversation with Jared Diamond who explains, “I’ve set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for…
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Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation Tim Brown HarperBusiness (2009) How to use design thinking to convert a need into a demand I recently read two books (this one written with Barry Katz and Roger…
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You only need four correct out of 10 questions to pass. 1) How long did the Hundred Years’ War last? 2) Which country makes Panama hats? 3) From which animal do we get cat gut? 4) In which month do…
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Here is a brief article written by Janko Roettgers for GigaOM in which he discusses a statement by Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, who recently called Netflix’s famous company culture presentation “the most important document ever to come out of the…
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Here is an excerpt from an article featured in The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which Marla M. Capozzi, John Horn, and Ari Kellen explain how and why leading companies use war games to focus better on…
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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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Flight director Keith Comeaux, right, celebrates with Martin Greco after a successful landing of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory on August 5, 2012 in Pasadena, California. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written…
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Lincoln: A President for the Ages Karl Weber, Editor and Contributor PublicAffairs/Participant Media (2012) Even without Spielberg’s great film with which it is associated, this book would still be a stunning achievement. Those who have already seen Steven Spielberg’s film may be surprised to learn…
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New Research on “The Innovation Bottom Line”
Here is a brief excerpt from the Introduction to the 2012 Sustainability & Innovation Global Executive Study and Research Project, co-sponsored by MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group. The report was co-authored by David Kiron, Nina Kruschwitz,…
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