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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

If you''re setting out to do so, you''ll need to confront uncertainty about how to get the most value from the investment and carefully consider what you''re setting out to achieve. Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble have written at length on the challenges of execution in their book, The Other Side of Innovation.