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How To Build Innovation Teams (My Playbook From HP and CableLabs)

How to build innovation teams, from the playbook I used at HP and CableLabs: culture before hiring, the right roles, the Idea Fund, and the right metrics

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R&D Spending Is the Most Misleading Number in Business

The government collects the real R&D split from every public company. It's locked away by federal law. Here's how to estimate it anyway.

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The Secret of Top Innovation Leaders: They Think Like Philosophers

The Philosophy of Innovation Journal: 210 questions for innovation leaders who want breakthrough thinking, not just methods. Early access available.

The Secret of Top Innovation Leaders: They Think Like Philosophers

Innovation Leadership Skills: 6 Questions Great Leaders Ask Their Employees S14 Ep26

Download Innovation_Leadership_Skills_6_Questions_Great_Leaders_Ask_Their_Employees_S14_Ep26.mp3 A key mission for an innovation leader is to motivate, support, and help your teams learn good innovation habits.  This should occur daily with each interaction. Modeling leadership habits and exhibiting leadership skills inspires employees to

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4 Questions New Leaders Should Ask

IDG (parent company for CIO, Computerworld, CSO, Infoworld, ITWorld and  MACWorld) asked what advice I would give new leaders. At the moment, I didn’t think it was going to be that hard. But then they added a constraint. I had to do it in less than 5 minutes. So I shared what I did when […]

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