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Leadership: 6 Pointers on Having Face Time with People

QAspire

He considered that 25% of time as a critical success factor – and it was. It can be used to build consensus, to educate others or to simply assess progress. One of my mentors always scheduled 75% of his work day for planned tasks and kept 25% of his time for conversations and exigencies.

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Innovation's Nine Critical Success Factors

Harvard Business Review

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. Visible senior management involvement. Old models don't work.