Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

Decades ago, Harvard professor Theodore Levitt popularized the rationale behind why people buy quarter-inch drill bits: “People don’t want quarter-inch bits. And despite all of the amazing benefits, a large number of Disney visitors have expressed strong resistance to being tracked. Design Innovation Product development'

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. Michael Levitt, CEO of BreakfastLeadership.com. is a Senior Consultant with NextMove and Partner at Innovation Partners International and author of Conversations Worth Having. Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

While working with a huge Russian hydrocarbon company in Texas last year, our innovation conversation quickly zeroed in on customers. The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. The unhappy innovation inference? No one disagreed.

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