Commentaries

Whitney Johnson on “Why Innovators Love Constraints”

February 13, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Whitney Johnson for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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Top 10 Philosophical One Liners

February 12, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by LordZB for the Listverse website, “a place for explorers. Together we seek out the most fascinating and rare gems of human knowledge. We write, we read, we learn—and in the process,…

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Don’t Let Strategy Become Planning

February 12, 2013

To Here is an excerpt from an article written by Roger Martin for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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John Kotter on Why “Management Is (Still) Not Leadership”

February 10, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Kotter for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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Roger Martin on “How to Successfully Manage Opposing Strategies”

February 9, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Roger Martin for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily…

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New Research on “The Innovation Bottom Line”

February 8, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from the Introduction to the 2012 Sustainability & Innovation Global Executive Study and Research Project, co-sponsored by MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group. The report was co-authored by David Kiron, Nina Kruschwitz,…

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Here’s an easy IQ test for really intelligent people

February 7, 2013

You only need four correct out of 10 questions to pass. 1) How long did the Hundred Years’ War last? 2) Which country makes Panama hats? 3) From which animal do we get cat gut? 4) In which month do…

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Silicon Valley’s most important document ever

February 7, 2013

Here is a brief article written by Janko Roettgers for GigaOM in which he discusses a statement by Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, who recently called Netflix’s famous company culture presentation “the most important document ever to come out of the…

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How to battle-test your innovation strategy

February 7, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article featured in The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which Marla M. Capozzi, John Horn, and Ari Kellen explain how and why leading companies use war games to focus better on…

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