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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. ” Instead, the labs are measured on factors like the potential of their ideas to change shopping behaviors in positive ways, and to burnish the Lowe’s brand.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

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. Joel Podolny, former head of Apple’s human resources, calls this tendency of our networks to evolve more slowly than our jobs “ network lag.”

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