The 8Ps of Business Building
In last week’s newsletter, I alluded to writing my next book on bringing science to the art of business building. This week, I’m excited to share more.
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Intrapreneur
Do You Really Understand What Your Company Needs?
I recently had a flashback to my college days when my friend had just come back from a job interview. The interviewer had asked him, “What’s 25 times six divided by two?”
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Top 10 Trends for Intrapreneurs
In an environment of external uncertainty and internal resource constraints, the role of intrapreneurs—those leaders driving innovation from within organizations—is more critical than ever. At Outthinker Networks, we are fortunate to meet every day with intrapreneurial leaders inside large and complex organizations as they share their top-of-mind questions, challenges, and visions.
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Moving Beyond Hierarchy: How Celestica Empowers Employees in Small Teams
The way humans come together to do work is changing. Technology has made us more interconnected than ever before. Rapid communication and advanced data analysis enable us to gather and perform work together in new ways. This enhanced and expected connectivity has infiltrated all aspects of our lives – the organization is no different.
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Your Innovation Farm: Where Ideas Grow & Thrive
Click here to register for Kaihan’s live masterclass on Oct. 26, 2023 Dear Outthinkers, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a leader who enables innovation and growth. In speaking with thought leaders like Joseph Fuller, Elizabeth Altman, and Tiffani Bova, and reviewing our own research at Outthinker Networks, I’ve
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5 Misconceptions about Intrapreneurs
In January, we introduced our 2023 Strategic Agenda based on in-depth conversations with top CSOs in our Outthinker Strategy Network. We will be expanding on one of these trends every week with the intention of supporting your organization’s strategy for the next year and beyond. This is our sixth installment.
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Taking on Innovation Antibodies
We’re all familiar with the legend of the entrepreneur. It’s a story of the creative genius who decides to fly solo and build an operation out of his (in the legend, it’s often his) garage. The completely innovative idea disrupts the market, takes hold, and changes the world as we know it.
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What To Do When Plan A Becomes Plan E
This morning turned into a bit of a crazy whirlwind. I had the schedule all planned out: Leave at 7:20am with my two sons, Makar and Lucas, and my wife, Pilar. Drop Makar at his bus stop, followed by Lucas at his, then drive Pilar to the train station, which is adjacent to my office
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Why People Don’t Believe You
I’m angry, not jetlagged. It’s 4:30am and I’m banging on the keyboard from my hotel room desk when I should be asleep, fueling for a keynote I deliver to a thousand electronics executives in four hours. What tossed me out of bed and pulled me to my laptop was not the three-hour time difference between New York
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The Future of Work Will Look Like College Again
Wind blowing the sounds of trumpets, laughter, and dinner parties across the Savannah River makes my perch on my hotel balcony feel like it’s at the center of this historic city. Tonight I flew from a workshop for a group of women executives in Miami to Savannah, Ga., where I will keynote for a software company’s
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