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

Harvard Business Review

What’s missing from the managerial toolkit is a way for managers to allocate their—and their organization’s—time and attention and resources on a day-to-day basis across the competing demands of managing today’s requirements and tomorrow’s possibilities. Vijay Govindarajan. Excerpted from.

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Before Hiring a Design Partner, Consider This

Harvard Business Review

Clients who don''t do this waste tremendous capital engaging design firms that specialize in tactical solutions to solve strategic problems, and vice-versa — Arnell famously failed to capture Tropicana''s brand heritage when it took the orange-impaled-by-straw off the carton, and parent company Pepsi was forced to revert to the old packaging.