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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

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Business organizations are not built for innovation; they are built for efficiency.&# – Vijay Govindarajan In The Other Side of Innovation the authors demonstrate their absolute knowledge of an area that many organizations need more of, innovation! There is just one little problem.

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Whatever Happened to the $300 House?

Harvard Business Review

The idea to design and build a $300 house first appeared here on the HBR site in August 2010, in a post by me (Vijay Govindarajan) and Christian Sarkar, and then again as one of several ideas in the HBR Agenda 2011. Any solution to housing for the poor must maintain the dignity of the members of the community. Durability.

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World Business Forum – Top 10 Speakers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

We all need to learn from Jack by dropping the politically correct approach to leadership by just doing the right thing. Smart leaders spend more time on creativity than productivity.&# Jack’s belief for the need to “ lead change before you have to &# is a mantra for leaders to live by.

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