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How Music Matters Now

Harvard Business Review

In his new book, Retromania , English music critic Simon Reynolds claims that innovation in popular music is in decline. If this is true, a big cultural change is upon us — the end of popular music as the great lab bench for our culture, as the defining innovator of our time. The innovation was now spreading.

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Like It or Not, You Are Always Leading by Example

Harvard Business Review

Competence, character, creativity, and charisma remain difficult qualities to quantify, let alone cultivate. Charm and charisma are wonderful, but good examples can prove as persuasive as great presence. Will innovators literally go the extra thousand miles for their early adopters?