Chapter 10 - The Fire You Beat Today Is Not The One You'll Face Tomorrow Flashcards
You need to innovate to help your organization ___
Survive change.
Every good leader is part ___ and ____
Entrepreneur and bellwether.
What is usually response to something that’s happening in your environment
Change
Something you choose to do
Innovation.
The basis of most innovation is what
A change of one kind or another.
Innovation is really about
Value.
Real innovation consists mainly of ___ and ___
Hard work and discipline.
Innovation happens only because of some kind of ___
Shortcoming in our existing ways of creating value.
Two places that innovation starts in
Change and Value
What is the opposite of change
Stability.
How do you uncover areas where you can provide a new value to your customers?
Stay as close to them as possible.
Whether you innovate based on value or change the most important thing is that you be
Disciplined and consistent.
What are the three things innovations should be
- Useful now
- Provide a specific value to a specific customer.
- Cheap
By teaching your people to be entrepreneurial you improve your organizations what
Prospects for growth
An organization structure and processes are there to add ___ and ___
Stability and predictability
The key to managing change is making it seem not like work they ___ to do but like work they ___ to do
Have
Need
Change is just a particular type of
Decision.
Your biggest obstacle when executing for change is
Time.
If a change takes longer to implement then ___ months it becomes absorbed into the normal routine of the organization
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Both innovation and change begin with what
Following the smoke
Innovation is not what
Invention
