This post is part of HBR’s special issue on failure.
Lafley’s Ambiguous “Gift” of Innovation Failure
This post is part of HBR’s special issue on failure. As informative as Karen Dillon’s “I Think of My Failures as a Gift” interview with Procter & Gamble’s A.G. Lafley was, my jaw still dropped reading the retired CEO’s description of one of his favorite “gifts.” As Lafley recalled, P&G had planned to quietly test […]
March 22, 2011
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