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Build Your Reputation the Rachael Ray Way

Harvard Business Review

One minute, you've never heard of Eric Ries , and the next he's on the cover of Inc. magazine, speaking at major conferences, and advising the White House on innovation. The next day, she was offered a $360,000 contract with the Food Network, launching her massively successful television career.

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Is Bias Fixable?

Harvard Business Review

As David Burkus recently wrote, innovation isn''t an idea problem, but rather a recognition problem ; a lack of noticing the good ideas already there. But the opposite can be true, too: for instance, Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries designed the 2013 Lean Startup Conference with the intention of inclusion. And you do not see others.

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