Thomas Edison
Long ago, Thomas Edison observed, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” I was again reminded of that as I began to read Lead from the Future in which Mark Johnson and Josh Suskewicz share their thoughts about how to turn visionary…
Read MoreAs the former Futurist and Chief Evangelist at Intel Corporation, Steve Brown has more than 30 years of experience in high tech, half of that time spent in strategic planning roles where he imagined and built plans for a world…
Read MoreJurriaan Kamer is an organization designer, transformation coach, and speaker. He lives with his wife and two kids in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is an expert in the field of organizing differently. He is obsessed with modern organizations and how…
Read MoreCreate in a Flash: A Leader’s Recipe for Breakthrough Innovation Roger Firestien Green Tractor Publishing (October 2019) Practical advice on how to achieve high-impact results with breakthrough innovation Whatever their size and nature may be, all organizations need effective leadership…
Read MoreLeaderSHOP Volume 2: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice From Today’s Top Thought Leaders Rodger Dean Duncan Maxwell Stone Publishing (September 2019) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt Organizations — including…
Read MoreMake, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of the Organization John Browne Pegasus Brooks (May 2019) John Browne: How and why “all progress starts with a dream: a vision of a better world.” Very few people complete a formal education in…
Read MorePaul Nunes is the global managing director for thought leadership at Accenture Research where he leads the company’s principle business research programs. He is coauthor of four books, including Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation (2014),…
Read MoreLeonard Marcus is a trailblazer in leadership studies and teaching. Shortly after 9/11, the federal government asked him and the Kennedy School’s David Gergen to establish the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard University. The purpose: to study critical…
Read MoreJules Pieri is Co-Founder and CEO of the product launch platform The Grommet. The company’s Citizen Commerce™ movement is reshaping how consumer products get discovered, shared, and bought. Pieri started her career as an industrial designer for technology companies and was…
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The nature and significance of self-efficacy in breakthrough innovation
In Quirky, Melissa A. Schilling focuses on eight “breakthrough innovators”: Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs. While doing so, she draws upon an abundance of recent research. However different…
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