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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. In particular, watch for markets that historically were inhospitable to entrepreneurs. Innovation is, of course, an intensely human behavior.

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Stop Talking About Social and Do It

Harvard Business Review

Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Everything. Disrupting How We Work.

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It???s Time to Retool HR, Not Split It

Harvard Business Review

Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions. Human resources Leadership Talent management' Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known.

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Harvard Business Review

Clayton Christensen has nicely described how the very things that made a company successful, including its efficiency, can also cause it to become obsolete when it's unable to adapt to disruptive change. Only after more than two years of combat and death did units begin adjusting their tactics in Iraq and Afghanistan, but adjust they did.