What does the leader of the future look like?
The best leaders make awesome where awesome is not by having a strong point of view of the future and is a learning animal; that’s what they look like.
What does the leader of the future look like?
The best leaders make awesome where awesome is not by having a strong point of view of the future and is a learning animal; that’s what they look like.
If you disrupt and can’t sustain, you don’t win. – Gary Pisano
Disruptive innovations that throw industries into chaos hog the spotlight. We are all transfixed by Google’s Moonshot attempts at either changing transportation, how we interact with objects and people that we believe those are the only innovations that matter.
Academics and consultants like coming up with fancy ways of describing certain types of behaviors and outcomes, and when it comes to innovation incremental and radical are such they use to describe and compare between small plain-vanilla innovation and radical or disruptive innovation.…
There is no innovation without experimentation…
A while back, Dan Ariely wrote a thoughtful column in the Harvard Business Review about why businesses don’t experiment:…
“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” – Keynes
Coming up with new ideas is a piece of cake. But escaping the pull of the tried and true is the difference between staying releant or not. Old ideas are like oxygen, we don’t even know they are there.
For example, a days ago Nilofer Merchant argued that Michael Porter’s model of Competitive Strategy needs an update. She posted her thoughts on HBR of all places. But see, it’s true. …