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Why do most businesses avoid surprises at all costs?

Coaching Tip

Take Apple's iPhone when it was introduced in 2007, I bought one for $650+ because it allowed me to leave my laptop at home when I traveled while keeping it touch through email and Internet access. In LEAPFROGGING , author Soren Kaplan reveals why this command-and-control mindset is exactly what stymies innovation.

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Why Innovation is not "Invented Here"

Coaching Tip

In LEAPFROGGING , author Soren Kaplan reveals why this command-and-control mindset is exactly what stymies innovation. The leapfrogging life cycle that Kaplan describes in his book is not a step-by-step how to guide. Da Vinci traveled in Europe throughout his early adulthood, apprenticing with different artists and thinkers.

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What Does Your Perfect Day Look Like?

Harvard Business Review

So I chose positions that required less travel and demanded less of my time on weekends. Ami Kaplan is a Senior Partner at Deloitte, advising some of the firm's largest global clients on business, risk management and other financial and organizational challenges. So how about you? What does your perfect day look like?

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Strong Patient-Provider Relationships Drive Healthier Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. Over the summer, our team traveled to this gathering in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Don't Wait for Change

Harvard Business Review

After bouncing the concept off of several industry CEOs, but still unsure whether he could pull it off, last summer Dirk began to recruit speakers for what he called a Provocation Summit.

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Executive Time Management

Coaching Tip

Some of the remaining time was spent traveling, in personal activity, such as exercise or lunches with spouses, or in short activities, such as quick calls, that weren't recorded by CEOs' assistants. Working alone averaged just six hours weekly. Source: The Wall Street Journal, February 14, 2012. Career Women Must Decide: To Be or Not to Be.

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15 Hours: A Common Sense Action Blueprint for Congress

Mills Scofield

Sam Gilman and Andrew Kaplan , college juniors started Common Sense Action in 2012 with one chapter. Andrew Kaplan - Co-Founder and Chief Action Officer (CAO) Andrew is a junior at Brown University where he is pursuing a Bachelors Degree in Political Science and Literary Arts. What if our youth started to take government back?

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