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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Start with a survey. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? The other approach, a skunkworks, can develop ideas that may require their own distribution channels, or compete with products that the company already sells.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

The Global Empathy Index uses a combination of publicly available information and proprietary data drawn from its surveys and from social and financial feeds — including textual analysis of over half a million social media interactions. Barratt Developments. United Parcel Service. American Express. Consumer Goods.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy. A survey of its 5,500 U.S.-based Consolidation shrinks the market down, often to one remaining, integrated producer, who can still profit by serving a small group of legacy customers. cut of sales. billion in merchandise.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. The questions represent a short version of the survey I use with my students.

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