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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

It’s expensive, but you agree to pay an innovation premium because you appreciate that in innovation clusters the search for talent is fierce. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Without one, all the social capital, ideas, intelligence and opportunities of the outpost are not fully leveraged by the company.

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The Five Stages of Disruption Denial

Harvard Business Review

Call it "disruption denial.". Markets change. This is an era of disruption. Not disruption as the occasional event, but disruption as the constant, chronic condition of our professional lives. At this point, there can more social capital in saying that we don''t like the tech than that we do.