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Originals or How Non-Conformists Move the World

Leading Blog

Developing Original Ideas. In one example Grant notes, “It was only when they began thinking about the task and then deliberately procrastinated that they considered more remote possibilities and generated more creative ideas. “It They move before the market can support their idea. Dealing with Groupthink.

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How to Make a Team of Stars Work

Harvard Business Review

While both had top people, one was dramatically more successful in the market. The underlying premise is that it’s not enough to just hire the right people — those with strong values, great potential, and high competence — and develop them as individuals. You also have to help them work together.

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How the Very Best Strategists Decide

Harvard Business Review

For example: Imagine it’s the future and you’re saying “I wish we’d thought about X.” Ask what you’d do if you were entrepreneurs preparing to enter your market de novo. Strategy development and internal reviews often focus on precedents, trends, and due diligence. ” What is X?

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Why You Should Have (at Least) Two Careers

Harvard Business Review

It’s not uncommon to meet a lawyer who’d like to work in renewable energy, or an app developer who’d like to write a novel, or an editor who fantasizes about becoming a landscape designer. Subsidize Your Skill Development. Taken together, all of us establish a “consensus” view on the markets.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink.

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You Are What You Eat … And What You Read

Frank Sonnenberg Online

In it, he interviewed me about my approach to personal development. I reached out to him to learn more about his approach to personal development. Sonnenberg: Did you ever notice that when you’re in the market for a new car, you seem to notice car ads more than usual? It’s very easy to get caught up in groupthink.

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What Great Social Media Campaigns Get Right

Harvard Business Review

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

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