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Make Your Strategy More Agile

Harvard Business Review

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. But the sprint format isn’t just for development and design anymore. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. If you say we should, let’s do it.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business Review

To survive and thrive with the conflicting demands of performance excellence and constrained resources, SFO has developed a highly structured organization. A list of songs was developed with the Adler Fellows, a group of young resident opera singers in training, who would perform with piano accompaniment. The audience loved it.