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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. Levels of team coordination and conflict management were also assessed. And what we found was striking. First, when individuals were less self-aware (i.e.,

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

They allow managers to suspend normal rules in an acceptable way and they provide an effective audiovisual medium for absorbing ideas. People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

If you're not running an innovative innovation contest to invite participation and build brand, then you're reacting to your competitor's competition. 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.