This Week's Must-Reads | Jan. 19, 2025

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Danny Nathan
January 23, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

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Here’s what we covered in Sunday’s edition…

While we all know that innovation is hard, explaining why can prove equally challenging. In this week’s article, we debunked 3 popular scapegoat reasons that people lean on to explain the inherent difficulty of innovation.

We highlighted systemic issues, such as middle management’s gatekeeping role and the corporate focus on upmarket growth, as key culprits that hinder disruptive innovation.

Here’s what you’ll find:

  • This Week’s Article: The Lies We Tell to Justify Fruitless Innovation

  • Case Study: Disruption as a path to succes.

  • Share This: Post our Sustaining vs. Disruptive innovation diagram for some extra LinkedIn clout!

Council Post: Strategy And Implications Of Going Upmarket In A Consumer Company

To sustain growth, you’ll eventually need to expand your total addressable market and cater to a broader range of customers, including those with more complex needs.

www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinessdevelopmentcouncil/2024/11/25/strategy-and-implications-of-going-upmarket-in-a-consumer-company

Why Innovation Fails: 7 Key Obstacles Explained

Why does Innovation Fail? That's a question that has kept many business leaders awake at night. And rightly so: Innovation

interobservers.com/why-innovation-fails-causes-solutions

Innovating Within: Tim Cook’s Approach to Leading Apple

Timothy Donald Cook, known as Tim Cook, took over as CEO of Apple Inc. in August 2011, following the resignation of the company's co-founder, Steve Jobs.

inspirepreneurmagazine.com/innovating-within-tim-cooks-approach-to-leading-apple

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