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For CEOs, Safe Decisions Aren’t Always Safe

N2Growth Blog

Organizations have incubated a generation of leaders who believe their job is to make safe decisions, not to rock the boat, and to protect people’s feelings, when those leaders rise the office of chief executive their default settings for risk aversion become magnified. Think guidelines – not rules. Think surrender – not control.

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Scaling Your UX Strategy

Harvard Business Review

This process has been incubated successfully at SAP, where teams have compressed the product development process into three months for some new releases. It also provides the executive leadership with a steady stream of "demos" to show off at CES.