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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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How Inspiring Identity Fuels Team Performance

Michael Lee Stallard

Feynman asked Robert Oppenheimer, the technical leader of the scientists and engineers working on the project, to let him inform the technicians about the project’s purpose. The technicians’ improved productivity and innovation helped the Allies beat Hitler in the race to make an atomic bomb. Organizations have identities too.

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Retaining quality and impact: Increased flexibility where training retains certain principles such as a clear link to the labour market, work-based learning, independent accreditation and assessment, and capturing outputs for individuals, employers, and the economy. Flexibility and open spend: Under this system any levy incurred above 0.5%

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Retaining quality and impact: Increased flexibility where training retains certain principles such as a clear link to the labour market, work-based learning, independent accreditation and assessment, and capturing outputs for individuals, employers, and the economy. Flexibility and open spend: Under this system any levy incurred above 0.5%

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The Promise of a Truly Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. CEOs need to know how a change in strategy (a new target market, say, or a new product) will affect manufacturing, marketing, selling, servicing, and other processes.

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The Downside of the FCC’s New Internet Privacy Rules

Harvard Business Review

While leading internet companies including Google, Facebook, and Netflix have continued to collect and harvest more personal information for ever-more innovative commercial uses, broadband providers have done little customization, largely because they don’t have access to transactional data, personal or otherwise.