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Leading to Disruptive Innovation

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In addition to these important idea-generating qualities, other skills are equally important when it comes to navigating the overall innovation process given the high level of ambiguity and uncertainty which is inherent when creating business breakthroughs. Savoring Surprise. Most companies assume surprises should always be avoided.

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Create a Presentation Your Audience Will Care About

Harvard Business Review

That's a topic, not a big idea. Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff. But you probably don't need to get into trends such as agility and serendipity.

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Thriving in the Reimagined Workplace

Harvard Business Review

Now that technology allows us to work anywhere, on any device, work is something people do — not just a place to which they go. New ways to improve business productivity, flexibility, and agility are no longer just nice to have: They are essential for the modern workplace. Sponsor Content from GoToMeeting.

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Create a Presentation Your Audience Will Care About

Harvard Business Review

That's a topic, not a big idea. Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff. But you probably don't need to get into trends such as agility and serendipity.

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The Winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge: How They Are Reinventing Management

Harvard Business Review

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. Think Bloomberg terminal meets Monopoly board: a dynamic marketplace for idea generation and development in which all employees are entrusted with the future direction of the company, asked for their opinions, listened to, and rewarded for successful ideas.

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M-Prize Lessons and How to Get to Management 2.0

Harvard Business Review

Those seven entries offer compelling evidence that the principles, social structures, and social technologies of the web not only offer up winning business models, they are the building blocks of a new management model for making organizations more resilient, inventive, and engaging. Maximize peer connections.

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Getting Employees Excited About a New Direction

Harvard Business Review

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. The Jam was three great days of idea generation and dialogue.”

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