Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". In her NYT piece and in an HBR ideacast , Susan Cain points out that the popular view — "Lone geniuses are out.

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Groupthink Brainstorming Osborne Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

But digitization is more than just a change of tools. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. The first step managers need to take is to assess their organization’s purpose and vision.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

In fact, it’s from Stevenson’s list of pressures that pull managers away from entrepreneurship and towards administration. In Boston, I worked with many amazing public managers and a handful of outstanding public entrepreneurs. The public entrepreneur needs to understand how the tools she uses — incentives, rewards, etc. —

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Osgood Storytelling Osborne 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

So when you’re managing a team or working in a group, what can you do to help foster creative thinking? During the last half of the 20th century, companies that wanted to encourage creative thinking relied on brainstorming and team building as important tools in their toolkit.

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Creativity Brainstorming Osborne Maslow 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

What other tools do policymakers have to limit the damage? If there are spillovers from Brexit onto them, it will require some probable extension of monetary stimulus, maybe some fiscal stimulus, but it’s all manageable. So there are things Europe can do, but they are going to require both political judgement and leadership.

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Banking Short-term Long-term Policies 9