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JANUARY 31, 2017

Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by ‏@HessEdward. Five tips for hiring (and holding on to) young people via Management Today @MT_editorial. Seven Attributes of the Most Innovative Cultures by Gordon Redding via @INSEADKnowledge. The Impoverishment of Attention by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. Our ways of measuring success are reductive and backward-looking.

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Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. Of these, the last indicator is perhaps the most likely to accurately capture a company’s short-termism.

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EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

I'm sure I asked this next question in the kind of holier-than-thou voice that only a 20-something can conjure: Why would I shift my career from Apple and GoLive (a hot web authoring software) to CAD, where innovation levels and growth were single digit? Nilofer Merchant is a corporate advisor and speaker on innovation methods.

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