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Research: We’re Not Very Self-Aware, Especially at Work

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve participated in a training or development program in the past two decades, chances are you took an assessment designed to increase self-awareness. Yet in talent development practice, companies spend millions of dollars and countless hours every year on self-reported assessments that only target self-knowledge.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

And coaching or mentoring approaches have great merits for personal development, but are hard to scale. They allow managers to suspend normal rules in an acceptable way and they provide an effective audiovisual medium for absorbing ideas. Strategists learn to manage and steer complex systems—without the costly risk of bankruptcy.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. Advertising will take a backseat to promotional offers as retailers and brand managers alike collectively decide that branding a promotion matters just as much as promoting a brand. It's easy to marry a WWWabsite with a contest, for example.