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How to Act Quickly Without Sacrificing Critical Thinking

Harvard Business Review

In my work, coaching leaders at every level through a variety of management dilemmas, I’ve developed three strategies to practice reflective urgency: Diagnose your urgency trap. This was true for Marcus, a senior leader who developed a habit of obsessing over administrative tasks.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Townes, and Henry L.

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What I Learned from My TED Talk

Harvard Business Review

Instead of perfection and getting it right the first time, innovation can be continuous, and core rather than episodic. We can also see a counterexample in the less productive response of RIM. because innovation and creativity are rarely about doing more of the same. So how does one unlearn? We have to be willing to reinvent.