Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. But anyone with near-term innovation targets with nine (or six or even four) digits in them should ensure they are familiar with the concept of "planning fallacy.". Then early results disappoint.

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Innovation Planning Kahneman Tversky 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. Yet stories like the one above about Steve Jobs made us wonder: might there be some hidden benefits to overconfidence in the context of corporate leadership? Most of us think of overconfidence as a bad thing.

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Stephenson Kahneman CEO Commitment 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

They succumb to changing times and conditions, to innovations by competitors, to poor decisions and lack of adaptability by their owners and managers, and to bad luck. Most businesses fail, eventually. But the flipside of such cognitive bias, it would seem, is lack of optimism. But it's just a beginning.

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Kahneman Construction Creativity Review 15

LDRLB

JANUARY 6, 2012

Perhaps 2011’s greatest text on organizational creativity and innovation. Owens outlines the six types of constraints innovators face and how to remove them in your organization. The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. The single must-read book on leadership. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

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Collins Cialdini Kahneman Constraint 141

Women in the LEAD

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back? Putting Our Differences to Work The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership and High Performance by Debbe Kennedy   ? Berrett -Koehler ?

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Kahneman Letter Influence Globalization 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. It’s about figuring out which situations are best for each.

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Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10