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How consultants can help clients fail fast – to succeed quickly

Chartered Management Institute

This fail fast idea also has roots in lean manufacturing and agile software development – but it’s become a guiding principle for all kinds of teams and organisations seeking to foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement and adaptability. Please login to the left to confirm your registration and access the article.

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Why People Lose Motivation β€” and What Managers Can Do to Help

Harvard Business Review

Firms are more agile when they encourage employees to think up new approaches and try them out, and then get feedback about how the environment responded to their ideas. For example, employees in a white-goods manufacturing plant in Italy learned about lean manufacturing by playing with Legos rather than cooktops.