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Can Optimists and Pessimists Ever Get Along?

Lead Change Blog

For instance, they’d suggest an innovative marketing strategy to promote their new product without much regard for anything else. Given these characteristics, naturally, the pessimists would tear the optimistic marketing strategy and other ideas to pieces. Power in Diversity. Being Different Isn’t a Bad Thing.

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Originals or How Non-Conformists Move the World

Leading Blog

For most of us we are not like the conceptual innovators that formulate a big idea early on in life and act on it. We are probably more like the experimental innovators that move through idea after idea, learning and evolving as they go. They move before the market can support their idea. Dealing with Groupthink.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets.

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People Suffer at Work When They Can’t Discuss the Racial Bias They Face Outside of It

Harvard Business Review

Last month, in an unprecedented show of solidarity, 150 CEOs from the world’s leading companies banded together to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace and, through an online platform, shared best practices for doing so. At the Center for Talent Innovation, we wanted to look into these suspicions.

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10 Common Thinking Errors Leaders Make

Mark Sanborn

This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. Examples: A CEO ignores market research that suggests a new product will not be well-received because he or she firmly believes it’s a good idea. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs

Harvard Business Review

Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse. And that's because some of the best paths to encourage innovation are surprisingly simple. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences.

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How to Choose the Right Protégé

Harvard Business Review

Ed Gadsden, former chief diversity officer at Pfizer, once asked his sponsor, the legal scholar and federal judge Leon Higginbotham, why he took such an interest in him, aside from the fact they were both African American. In earlier research , the Center for Talent Innovation explored the importance of finding the right sponsor.

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