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Harvard Business Review publishes regularly intriguing posts on innovation by the leading thought leaders, that reflect the recent trends towards definition and perception of innovation, as well as its strategic application within the business … more

Disruptive innovation is not a breakthrough that makes good product better, but is a transformation of the product that historically was so expensive and complicated that only few people with a lot of money and a lot of skill had access to. Disruptive Innovation makes this product much more accessible for a large population. Prof. Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business Review

Copyright (c) 2010 Willie Horton Another "New" year is upon us - but what has changed? Research (in the Universities of Chicago, Milan, Harvard - the list is quite long!) tells us that, in general, normal people lead repetitive lives where little ever changes. Sure, you might have made an important career change, met the love of your life (for now!), launched a new business, or captained yo

I named it "Primer for Leaders", because if you are managing people it means you possess some skills that make you stand out of the crowd and you need to know the basics of successful leadership. But "to possess" is not sufficient, you need to articulate with these skills constantly ruling out the daily business issues in your team, guiding and introducing your business vision in order to inspire your team. Our daily life exposes us to varios unexpected situations and we understand that even if people are on the same intellectual level and from the identical cultural background, the problems will appear anyway. But what do we need to do and how to manage absolutely diverse team, with regards to the intellectual and cultural background? What skills do we need to develop or improve over the advanced level in order to make ourselves flexible and responsive in accordance with the particular situation?