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How Separate Should a Corporate Spin-Off Be?

Harvard Business Review

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

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When to Make a Promise to Your Boss (and When Not To)

Harvard Business Review

You can judge for yourself the creativity emanating far from these agencies’ U.S. And because batteries are the single most expensive component in electric vehicles, that would be a big step toward his dream of a mass-market Tesla car. Communication Managing yourself' home bases in the epic 90-second spot.