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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

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Business organizations are not built for innovation; they are built for efficiency.&# – Vijay Govindarajan In The Other Side of Innovation the authors demonstrate their absolute knowledge of an area that many organizations need more of, innovation! The Authors are both credible and far from academic sounding.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES.

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Why the World Needs Doctors with These 3 Qualities

Harvard Business Review

health care system, but our five-year research project in India and the U.S. What we found, while collecting case studies for our book Reverse Innovation in Health Care , is that these doctors are not just medical experts; they also have other qualities that make them very effective leaders. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book.

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Whatever Happened to the $300 House?

Harvard Business Review

The idea to design and build a $300 house first appeared here on the HBR site in August 2010, in a post by me (Vijay Govindarajan) and Christian Sarkar, and then again as one of several ideas in the HBR Agenda 2011. What reverse innovation lessons might be learned by the participants in such a project?

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Negotiating Innovation and Control

Harvard Business Review

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. But you know, my leadership team is smart. Exhorting people to be more innovative when all soft and hard systems point towards incrementalism doesn't do much good. That iteration-itis post you wrote really hit home," she said.

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Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past

Harvard Business Review

But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Success in each box requires a different set of skills, attitudes, practices, and leadership. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Vijay Govindarajan.

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The $300 House: The Corporate Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. In one of the projects, we t worked with Ashoka Change Leader Vishnu Swaminathan and his "Housing for All" project. Today, Stephanie A. We learned quite a bit.