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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

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When Work Satisfaction Comes from Having 4 Jobs

Harvard Business Review

We call them harmonic careerists , because many of them have constructed their working lives by combining multiple jobs rather than taking on a single monolithic career. Meg is a freelance writer, blogger, and children’s book author and merchandiser, and she owns her own marketing and PR consultancy.

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