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Can’t Find a Steve Jobs? Hire an Innovation Organizer Instead

Harvard Business Review

The senior leadership team needs to respect and adhere to the same standards as everyone else. Never allow the organization to over-engineer the innovation process. Ideally an outside facilitator leads the discussion and analysis, and the findings are captured permanently into a knowledge management system.

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Research: Why Best Practices Don’t Translate Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Managing Across Cultures. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures. Given the China site’s historical emphasis on high quality software development, incorporating regular input from customers was seen as contrary to good engineering practice so developers didn’t adopt the approach. leadership.