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The Benefits of Unplugging as a Team

Harvard Business Review

” A growing body of neuroscience research has begun to reveal the exact ways in which information age technologies cut against the natural grain of the human mind. I have seen this truth revealed again and again in my five years as senior managing director at the Drucker Institute, where I lead the Un/Workshops consulting practice.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

” Putting a number on that understanding of new markets and technologies — whether it makes sense for one’s employer to enter them, and how — is difficult. . “Then you feel more comfortable starting to invest a little bit more.” The vision thing. That’s a group assessment,” Berns says.