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How Criticism Creates Innovative Teams

Harvard Business Review

There''s a lot of discussion on how leaders ought to cast a vision, gain buy-in, or steer a group to consensus. During the long process of creating a blockbuster film, the teams at Pixar rely on criticism to make their work stronger. Communication Innovation Leading teams'

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Health Care for 1% of the Cost

Harvard Business Review

There is a general consensus that U.S. Can reverse innovationinnovations originating from poor countries — provide one important answer? the approach is to spend more money on major technological advances and come up with innovative products and solutions. healthcare needs major reform. Most definitely.

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Nigeria’s GDP Just Doubled on Paper: What It Means in Practice

Harvard Business Review

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested.

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The Myth of Virality and What Marketers Can Learn From Justin Bieber

Strategy Driven

” The prevailing consensus is that if a Kim Kardashian or Justin Bieber tweets your content out to their followers, the inherent size of their audience will cause a viral loop, exploding the campaign into the news feeds and inboxes of everyone and their grandmother. What contributed to this success, you may ask?

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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. LaunchPad , a San Francisco startup that provides enterprise innovation software, recently participated in a vision sprint that I designed for them.

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The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015

Harvard Business Review

For example, if you asked your friend to see a movie, Emu would immediately geolocate both of you, suggest a nearby theater and show films and times, then check your calendars for your availability. Think of the block chain as a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data. Innovation Internet'

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With Goodreads, Amazon Fills Out an Advice Portfolio

Harvard Business Review

There have always been friends and family we trust, journalists and film critics we find credible, and publications like travel guides or Consumer Reports that we know are reliable. Today, we add to that a great deal more. For Google, this was the perfect advice consolidation play.

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