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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Be sure you are investing enough in innovation and focusing on the right R&D projects, so you have interesting products to meet the rising consumer demand. Rethink outsourcing. Your leadership is crucial. Reset your goals and KPIs.

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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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How to Regain the Lost Art of Reflection

Harvard Business Review

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, among others, share Warren Buffett’s discipline to read extensively, safeguard time for personal development projects, and constantly seek new stimulus and perspectives. She comments, “Thinking is the one thing you can’t outsource as a leader.

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