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How the Very Best Strategists Decide

Harvard Business Review

In my workshops I ask people to create as many ideas as they can to prevent a bathtub from overflowing. The problem was that their strategy development and internal reviews, like those in many companies, didn’t account for competitive dynamics. Switch to another. Apply humor — it opens up the brain. What could go wrong?

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The CIO as Corporate Psychic

Harvard Business Review

But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves. CIOs often complain that they can't find the time to read, yet they end up answering hundreds of emails.

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