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How to Tell If a Company Is Good at Innovating or Just Good at PR

Harvard Business Review

There are a variety of legitimate reasons for companies to bolster their innovation capabilities, ranging from fighting against current and emerging competitors to raising morale and attracting younger employees. How do you plan to accelerate the path from idea to impact? There are companies that pursue innovation with rigor.

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The Two Questions to Ask Before You Innovate

Harvard Business Review

A meticulously constructed business plan showed how the venture could thoughtfully expand into six major cities in China. While it was very clear what the team planned to do, its members hadn''t verified their assumptions about why they were going to do it. What do operating margins have to be? What are ultimate revenue targets?

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How to Manage an Insecure Employee

Harvard Business Review

Is it hurting morale? Ultimately, though, the goal is for your employee to operate more autonomously, says Burris. At the time, Anand was helping to build an incubator for Verizon and the employee — we’ll call him Peter — was a front-end Android developer who had been hired as a contract worker.