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1. The eight essentials of innovation: Strategic and organizational factors are what separate successful big-company innovators from the rest of the field. more

2. The four global forces breaking all the trends: The world economy’s operating system is being rewritten. In this exclusive excerpt from the new book No Ordinary Disruption, its authors explain the trends reshaping the world and why leaders must adjust to a new reality. more

3. Are you ready to decide?: Before doing so, executives should ask themselves two sets of questions.

4. Decoding leadership: What really matters: New research suggests that the secret to developing effective leaders is to encourage four types of behavior.

5. Ascending to the C-suite: A new survey finds that executives who move effectively into the C-suite are communicating priorities, valuing their teams, spending time on culture, and understanding their unique leadership role.

6. The simple rules of disciplined innovation: Constraints aren’t the enemy of creativity—they make it more effective.

7. Strategy under uncertainty: The traditional approach to strategy requires precise predictions and thus often leads executives to underestimate uncertainty. This can be downright dangerous. Our classic four-level framework can help.

8. Toward a new HR philosophy: HR should empower managers to decide on standards, hire how they choose, and develop company-wide leaders.

9. Our gambling culture: The craving for immediate gratification has spread well beyond Wall Street.

10. Learning from South Korea’s mobile-retailing boom: As omni-channel retailing transforms this nation of 50 million people, retailers around the world should be watching—and learning.

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