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How Thomson Reuters Is Creating a Culture of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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It???s Time to Retool HR, Not Split It

Harvard Business Review

In the The Capitalists Dilemma, Clay Christensen and Derek van Bever suggest that leaders have been trained and socialized to their role as capitalists, and thus come to rely too heavily on familiar and traditional finance principles. Human resources Leadership Talent management'

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