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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. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Vijay Govindarajan. Box 1 cannot execute Box 3 innovations. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution.

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Before Hiring a Design Partner, Consider This

Harvard Business Review

Ziba''s service innovation and retail design work with Umpqua Bank , for example, continues to be relevant and productive years after it was completed, with the bank adding dozens of branches and tens of billions in holdings. It''s your job to pour what you know into the project and travel with the team: think of it as an equal partnership.