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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Number of ideas generated. ” Putting a number on that understanding of new markets and technologies — whether it makes sense for one’s employer to enter them, and how — is difficult. There’s a danger that measurement sucks up resources better devoted to cultivating and testing new ideas.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have had more than a few engagements that have come about as a result of the need to repair the carnage and devastation that occurred from the implementation of advice put forth, or the ideas generated by a well intentioned yet unqualified “coach”. That workshop in coaching skills is a long way from the world of the factory floor.

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