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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. He made certain the Navy’s plans and budgets were aligned with his priorities. Instead, he increased the training budget.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. ” Scrum methods enabled him to finish his seemingly impossible project on time, under budget, and with fewer bugs than any previous release. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods.

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Planting Entrepreneurial Innovation in Inner Cities

Harvard Business Review

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

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What Management 2.0 Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

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Are You a Rebel or a Leader?

Harvard Business Review

All the content was "good," the timelines "reasonable," the budgets "sufficient.". I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. The protagonist does not wait for permission to lead, innovate, or strategize. A rebel resists conformity.

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Jack Welch’s Approach to Breaking Down Silos Still Works

Harvard Business Review

Welch was convinced that the speed of globalization and technological innovation in the 21 st century would require companies to work very differently – with shorter decision cycles, more employee engagement, and stronger collaboration than had previously been required to compete. This was delaying product production.

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Six Strategy Insights RIM's New CEO Can Use

Harvard Business Review

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Is it to argue for resources, allocate budgets, create performance metrics, decide among customer targets, or other reasons? Yet in turbulent times this is dysfunctional.