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Don't Put Your Competitiveness in Jeopardy

Harvard Business Review

— who use targeted technical innovation to cheat to compete from home against human contestants. People will constantly revise, enhance and extend their devices in a never-ending Red Queen's Race of innovative effectiveness. They turn their devices and themselves into Jeopardy cyborgs — Jeopborgs?

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.