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3 Personal Lessons On How To Succeed At Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates. Develop a learning mindset to embrace failure and discover new opportunities Given my scientific background, I’m sure it comes as no surprise that for the past 5 years, I’ve been experimenting with what and how I write for this blog. What Have You Learned Going Forward?

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Were you misled by the data?

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Better Service, Faster: A Design Thinking Case Study

Harvard Business Review

On February 14, 2014, Stanford students Elizabeth Woodson and Saul Gurdus drove a rented Winnebago to the San Mateo office of the Golden Gate Regional Center (GGRC), where they greeted eight curious GGRC staff members. No single stage felt broken from the vantage point of individual staffers.