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Build Your Reputation the Rachael Ray Way

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. Skills development comes first. Broad public exposure won't do you much good if your ideas and skills aren't sharp. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious.

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Combating Four Innovation Lies

Harvard Business Review

Lie #2: Product developer, "We'll be ready to ship in six months.". Product developers have every intention of finishing development on time, but invariably things take longer and cost more than people projected. The easiest way to address this lie is to change the development paradigm.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

has recently experienced a rise in income inequality to levels last seen in the 1920s, and other countries, especially developed ones, have registered similar if less dramatic increases. But in the words of survey coauthor Michael Porter , many were “offended by the discussion saying that someone is getting paid too much.”