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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business Review

Strategic stress is characterized by three zones, which executives must consider and effectively manage: Strategic Burnout (too much strategic stress). This scenario is characterized by many divergent projects, fragmented activities that have little in common with the initial strategic plan, and projects that do not fit together.

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Provoking the Future

Harvard Business Review

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. You're invited to play a real role in influencing the destiny of the company by joining your colleagues in a stock market-based game called "Mutual Fun." As Lavoie describes in his Management 2.0

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Patagonia's Provocative Black Friday Campaign

Harvard Business Review

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". It is the world's first broad look for statistics underlying Innovation Management practices. In a study by Dr. Rajendra S.

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Introducing the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The Harvard Business Review 's mission is to improve the practice of management and its impact on a changing world. Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century.