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Is It Time to Be Skeptical on China?

Harvard Business Review

As someone who lived in China during the “Tiananmen massacre,” I’ve long been skeptical of the Communist Party’s long-term ability to lead the country forward. From 1979 to 2010, the economy grew an average of 9.9%, reaching 15% in 1984.). Innovation surely depends on such change. Economic growth was 7.7%

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. The innovation portfolio. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

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Become Businessperson of the Year

Harvard Business Review

Fortune recently named its Businesspersons of the Year for 2010 , and the list was, for the most part, predictable. Increasingly, businesses need 2-in-1 leaders to help cope with everything from globalization to quickening innovation to shorter product lifecycles. Yes, there were wunderkind founder-CEOs like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

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