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How to Discover Your Organization’s Deep Purpose

Skip Prichard

“Productivity and innovation soar when employees are inspired by a purpose that aligns with their own values.” The first is directional : Purpose acts as a kind of North Star to help guide strategy and innovation. “Purpose acts as a kind of North Star to help guide strategy and innovation.”

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Unlike Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, the United States has generally failed to develop widely accepted skills standards for particular sectors. public workforce-development system do. Here's one that's appropriate for nonunionized businesses. Sector-Based Regional Initiatives.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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The HBR Approach to Failure

Harvard Business Review

In the 2004-2006 period the major failure-related characteristic of the data is the CEO , namely CEO succession , CEO and board relationships, and mechanisms to support CEOs taking up their posts. Haydn Shaughnessy is editor of Innovation Management , and a Visiting Fellow at nGenera Insight where he writes on ecosystem management.