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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market.

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. They''re rethinking their economic relationships with the rest.

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3 Changes Retailers Need to Make to Survive

Harvard Business Review

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images.

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Competing with Platforms That Ignore the Law

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, Zenefits modernizes human resources workflows with slick software to replace outdated paper. In general, Airbnb seems to attract the most price-sensitive customers, so it might seem that a midrange hotel should move up-market, adding amenities to attract customers less interested in Airbnb. Who could resist?

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The Right Way for an Established Firm to Do an Innovation Pilot with a Startup

Harvard Business Review

For innovation-hungry legacy firms, partnering with a startup can be appealing. With apologies to Tolstoy, all happy start-up partnerships are alike; every unhappy innovation partnership is unhappy in its own way. They don’t seek to assess how well an innovation works; they try to measure how well that innovation works for us.

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Stop Talking About Social and Do It

Harvard Business Review

Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Disrupting How We Work.