Faced with the choice of starting a company or joining a large corporation, Steve Jobs believed that it was ‘more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy’. But for innovators inside established companies, making a distinction between being a pirate and joining the navy is a fallacy. We have to figure out a way to become pirates in the navy!
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Thinkers50 Podcast: Tendayi Viki and Innovation Made Tangible
In this podcast brought to you in partnership with the Brightline Initiative, Des Dearlove discusses Tendayi Viki and 1508’s new report, Innovation Made Tangible. Tendayi and 1508 maintain that in the last several years innovation has become the most important part of...
Tendayi Viki: Helping Elephants Do Ballet
How do you help a company develop a ‘startup’ mindset that lasts even while they are doing their regular day-to-day work? How do you do strategy in an iterative way? How can you help successful companies worry about the future in spite of a comfortable present?
Tendayi Viki
Tendayi Viki is an award winning author and corporate innovation expert. He holds a PhD in Psychology and an MBA. As Associate Partner at Strategyzer, Tendayi works with companies to develop their internal ecosystems so they can innovate for the future while managing...
Transforming Beyond the Crisis
Today, the question is what do you need to do now to seize tomorrow? Transforming Beyond the Crisis is a new book by Brightline Initiative and Thinkers50 and brings a unique compilation of the best thinking from the world’s leading business thinkers and practitioners.
When It Comes To Innovation Not All Pirates Are The Same!
When Steve Jobs said that it was “more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy”, he was reflecting the reality that large companies are much slower to respond to change than startups. This is the speed boat versus oil tanker conundrum. The bureaucracy that runs many...
Awards 2017
Experience two decades of identifying, ranking, and recognizing the very best in management thinking.Ranking 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 Ranking & Distinguished Achievement Awards 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2017 Thinkers50 Ranking & Awards London, November 13,...
2019 Awards Gala Agenda
Every two years, Thinkers50 hosts a unique event in central London: A gathering of great business minds for a day of debate, discussion and networking, followed by an elegant Gala evening celebrating the very best in management thinking.
Thinkers50 Founder Declares Philosophy As Management’s New Frontier
Originally published at www.Forbes.com Nobody would argue that great leaders are lifelong learners. And to help great leaders learn management science has historically borrowed from more established disciplines to supplement its relatively short history. ...
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