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Megabus: Innovation in Bus Transportation

Ron Edmondson

There is a fairly new player in the transportation industry that I knew nothing about until recently. I love innovation and change, so I find this company encouraging in numerous ways. Over the years, as airline competition made prices more reasonable, bus transportation seems to have become less popular. Have you seen them?

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business Review

Heat degrades the substrate of innovation, while light catalyzes it.” For example, the research of Amy Edmondson and Alicia Tucker in hospital emergency rooms shows that the failure to speak up can lead to medical mistakes with disastrous consequences. Similar failures among cockpit crews can lead to airline crashes.

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CEOs Sometimes Need Outside Help

Harvard Business Review

The reality today is that businesses, governments, and nonprofits are so complex and often must move so quickly that in many cases, finding answers to difficult questions requires tapping experts, service providers, and innovators scattered all over the world. Edmondson, and Herman B. As Faaiza Rashid, Amy C.

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