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Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin on the “Seven Stages of Challenge Driven Innovation”

September 12, 2012

  In Chapter 3 of The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise, Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin share their concerns about inadequacies of the state-gate process, currently the dominant paradigm for internal innovation. They favor what they characterize as “Challenge Driven Innovation” (CDI),…

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Four Lessons From the Best Bosses I Ever Had

September 11, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Deborah Mills-Scofield  for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click…

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The Open Innovation Marketplace: A book review by Bob Morris

September 11, 2012

The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin FT Press/Pearson (2011) How and why global networks of highly specialized expertise create value in the challenge driven enterprise In Open Business Models (2003),…

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If You Were the Next Steve Jobs…

September 10, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Umair Haque  for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. *     *     *…

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Out of Our Minds: A book review by Bob Morris

September 10, 2012

Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative Ken Robinson Capstone Publishing Ltd. (2011) How and why to think differently about learning to be creative This is a “New Edition, Fully Updated” of a book first published in 2001. Why…

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Opting Out of the “Rug Rat Race”

September 9, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Paul Tough and featured in The Wall Street Journal (September 8, 2012). There continues to be so much bloviating BLAH BLAH BLAH about the importance of education at all levels…

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Ben Lerer (the Thrillist Media Group) in “The Corner Office”

September 9, 2012

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Ben Lerer is a co-founder and the chief executive of the…

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So Good They Can’t Ignore You: A book review by Bob Morris

September 8, 2012

So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love Cal Newport Business Plus (2012)How and why “the craftsman mindset is the foundation for creating work you love” Curious, I checked on the…

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Lead By Greatness: A book review by Bob Morris

September 8, 2012

Lead By Greatness: How Character Can Power Your Success  David Lapin Avoda Books  (2012) “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Greatness” is one of the terms that have become essentially useless because their meaning…

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Six especially engaging films (2010-2011)

September 8, 2012

Actually, there are far more than six but these are among the films I think are especially engaging: The King’s Speech (201o): This brilliantly traces the process by which the Duke of York (later crowned George VI, played by Colin…

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