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Developing Mindful Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. Training and development programs almost universally focus factory-like on inputs and outputs — absorb curriculum, check a box; learn a skill, advance a rung; submit to assessment, fix a problem.

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Five Power Skills for Discovering Radical Ideas

Harvard Business Review

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. With this in mind, we started to document and study the best-in-class skills of our client companies and their intrapreneurs.

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

After 2009, the Cuban economy really didn’t recover. When you put all these pieces together around education and health care, it’s clear that Cuba is likely a champion of investment in the development of human capital—but for the last 50 years it has an extremely low economic return on this investment.