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The Idolbuster
JANUARY 15, 2013
I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. Product development is always needed to make a new technology robust enough to work consistently in customer hands. Bad management? Sounds like it.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 10, 2015
Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. For example, a senior executive in a traditional financial services organization recognized that the organization needed to embrace new technologies in order to engage with Millennials.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 28, 2015
Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. For all of the sturm und drang surrounding the idea, as we talked I realized a lot of holacracy is just codifying many of the informal elements of good management.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 2, 2013
firms have historically given the CEO and other management members exclusive responsibility for communicating with investors. companies have started demanding direct access to non-management board members in order to assess the quality of board stewardship. In recent years, institutional shareholders in U.S.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2017
Taken together, all of us establish a “consensus” view on the markets. And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.” ” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. Discover Real Innovations.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 11, 2012
Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. This is the opposite of groupthink, the creativity-killing phenomenon of too much agreement and too similar perspectives that often paralyzes otherwise great teams.
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