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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. Western CEOs can create challenges for global R&D teams by introducing artificial constraints that foster a sense of urgency and healthy rivalry that can lead to frugal solutions. lakhs ($6,600).

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Want to Thrive in Today’s High-Speed, Hypercompetitive Business World? Teach Your Management Team to Iterate.

Strategy Driven

Ed Muzio is CEO of Group Harmonics and an award-winning three-time author. About the Author. An expert in the scientific study of measuring and modifying human behavior, he is a sought-after consultant to business and industry worldwide and a popular media source.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Harvard Business Review

In today’s hypercompetitive world, the organization absolutely needs you to bring your whole self to work. By proving that diversity can pay big dividends, you can also demonstrate why it’s okay to “just be yourself.”.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

In turn — and here's the crucial part — India's likely to be able to create the future: stuff that's globally hypercompetitive, because it's lean, clean, and green, igniting a new basis for export-led growth, and, more than likely, offering better sources of advantage. Now let's go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

Along with Reed Hastings, Netflix’s founder and CEO, she wrote a PowerPoint presentation on Netflix culture. A great example of creativity from superconsumers in your midst is what happened to Steve Hughes, the CEO of Sunrise Strategic Partners (a $300 million private equity fund). In fact, she literally wrote the book on it.