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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. For example, most in the art world agreed that sculptor Janet Echelman's "Water Sky Garden," created for the speed-skating site at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, was decidedly different. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard."

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On Undo's Undue Importance

Harvard Business Review

Back in 1982 Norton Utilities launched its "Unerase" product. It's telling us that software as a service just blinked into being mainstream in 2010. Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. The feature? If we listen to "undo", what is it telling us now?

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

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Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. million hours in delays at the crossing in 2010, concludes an upcoming report by the Center for Automotive Research. One-quarter of the truck freight between the U.S. This is Canada's No.

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