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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

A cascading series of deadlines, operating systems, and reporting rules have to be arranged, tested, and communicated. The administration also needs time to work on the reporting requirements that will be part and parcel of making the system work. Can we really do that in this environment?".

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Skunkworks often need to be protected from the business units, so that they have the freedom and resources that their ideas need to get out into the market. Invest real money.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

It protects you from being clueless about the political dynamics that so often kill good ideas. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. Political views also hang by cluster.

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