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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California.

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Can Being Overconfident Make You a Better Leader?

Harvard Business Review

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached AT&T about partnering on a new kind of mobile phone — a touchscreen computer that would fit in your pocket — Apple had no expertise in the mobile market. Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device.

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People Suffer at Work When They Can’t Discuss the Racial Bias They Face Outside of It

Harvard Business Review

Last month, in an unprecedented show of solidarity, 150 CEOs from the world’s leading companies banded together to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace and, through an online platform, shared best practices for doing so. At the Center for Talent Innovation, we wanted to look into these suspicions.

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