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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Optimization therefore made a lot of sense.

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What I Learned from My TED Talk

Harvard Business Review

Our goal today is to learn our way into the future. Instead of perfection and getting it right the first time, innovation can be continuous, and core rather than episodic. We can also see a counterexample in the less productive response of RIM. because innovation and creativity are rarely about doing more of the same.