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Why You Should Let a 5-Year Old Design Your Next Product

Harvard Business Review

Getting toothpaste onto a toothbrush can be messy if your fine motor skills are still developing. Thus far, Quirky has brought nearly 500 products to market, since 2009 and the level of sophistication and quality continues to grow. All his life, he hated brushing his teeth. So, Houston Diaz decided to invent a solution.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. ” Let’s go back to the IBM example.