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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Frito-Lay has already made competition the cornerstone of its Super Bowl advertising , and Toyota , desperate to remind people what a wonderful corporate citizen it can be, invites aspiring innovators to suggest how the firm's technology can be used for good in unexpected ways. It's easy to marry a WWWabsite with a contest, for example.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

And coaching or mentoring approaches have great merits for personal development, but are hard to scale. They allow managers to suspend normal rules in an acceptable way and they provide an effective audiovisual medium for absorbing ideas. Strategists learn to manage and steer complex systems—without the costly risk of bankruptcy.