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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

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The Three-Box Solution : A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan Ultimately our future is not in linear—incremental—improvements. Taylor There's no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business. It is in nonlinear—nonconforming, breakthrough—change.

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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

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Business organizations are not built for innovation; they are built for efficiency.&# – Vijay Govindarajan In The Other Side of Innovation the authors demonstrate their absolute knowledge of an area that many organizations need more of, innovation! There is just one little problem.

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The Most Intriguing HBR Blog Posts of 2010

Harvard Business Review

A post that neatly distilled a problem, framed an important question, and led to much commentary was Vijay Govindarajan's The $300 House: A Hands-On Lab for Reverse Innovation? Bill Taylor's Why Nobody Wins Unless Everybody Wins pulled in insights from one unlikely Boss. link] Brave: Have a Bad Meeting , and Jeffrey Pfeffer's.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

by Bill Taylor. by Vijay Govindarajan. His diagnosis is looking pretty good, even if his prescription was wrong. Great People Are Overrated. Would you rather hire one genius or 100 pretty good people? Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing. by Rob Wheeler. Businesses should become profitable before they become big.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris: Week of 11/12/12

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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition Dennis N. Perkins with Margaret P. Holtman, Paul R. Kessler, and Catherine McCarthy The Yale Book of Quotations Fred R. Shapiro, [.].