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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

And the corporate executive playing games to improve his or her strategy-making skills is still rare. We think that games have an important place in cultivating good strategists, and that now more than ever games can give executives an edge over their competition. This is unfortunate. Games provide inexpensive, real-time feedback.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.