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Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry

Harvard Business Review

Most professionals build their network over time through proximity — people from your business school study group, or colleagues from your current company or past jobs. First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry.

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You Don’t Need to Adopt Holacracy to Get Some of Its Benefits

Harvard Business Review

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Even Brian admits that holacracy isn’t for everyone (I’m still not sure I would want to work in a company that adopted it), but I think every manager could benefit from a better understanding of the problems that it is trying to solve.

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It's OK to Give Shareholders Access to Outside Directors

Harvard Business Review

boards of directors should engage with their companies'' shareholders. companies have started demanding direct access to non-management board members in order to assess the quality of board stewardship. I recently participated in a stimulating roundtable discussion on how U.S. In recent years, institutional shareholders in U.S.

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Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs

Harvard Business Review

And that was just from one company's private R&D engine, Xerox's PARC. In a recent piece in The New Yorker exploring the flaws inherent in the groupthink of brainstorming sessions, Jonah Lehrer cited research into the process of free association by psychology professor Charlan Nemeth of the University of California at Berekely.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Asia's largest IT service provider has built what it calls a global Co-Innovation Network (COIN), which includes technology partnerships with startups and VC firms in Silicon Valley as well as academic tie-ups with leading American universities such as MIT, Georgia Tech, and Stanford. Is your company globalizing R&D?

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Want a Team to be Creative? Make it Diverse

Harvard Business Review

Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity. Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Assembling and managing diverse teams is hard work.

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3 Ways to Build a Data-Driven Team

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, being data-driven has joined the ranks of “innovative”, “diverse”, and “socially responsible” as the one of most laudable features of organizational culture, at least if we go by company websites. Instead, celebrate critical thinking, curiosity, and the deeper desire to question things.

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