Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

In season three of Mad Men , Sterling Coopers rainmakers — including Don Draper and Roger Sterling — are planning to leave the ad agency and to take as many clients as possible with them. Its not that creative people arent valuable! HBR: Whats the main takeaway of the research? Of course they are.

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Cooper Rogers Advertising Creativity 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Lafley, Roger L. Lafley and Roger Martin — get to the heart of strategy, explaining what it's for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done. Every so often employees are sent to 'Brainstorm Island": an off-site replete with trendy lectures, creative workshops, and overenthusiastic facilitators.

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Books Rogers Globalization Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

The story of finance over the last 25 years has been the story of innovation run amok — and of our systematic failure, as a society, as companies, as individual leaders, to learn from mistakes we seem determined to keep making. Can you distinguish between genuine creativity and mindless imitation?

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Rogers Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. And short-term numbers at that. Embrace your organization’s humanity.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

For C1400 this is not a style as much as some areas for reflection ( they call it a “code&# ) and are Awareness, Focus, Creativity, Integrity, Perseverance and Service. In today’s blog post I’ll attempt to paint the portrait of the perfect leader… So, what traits would my perfect leader possess?

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 313

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. Who authors the destiny of nations? Whose rights are sacrosanct?

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14