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Timing of Innovation – Getting the Odds on Your Side

Innovation Excellence

If you manage to get the timing just right, your innovations will obviously benefit from huge tailwinds when entire industries are transitioning from the old to the new with you riding at the top of the wave. When it comes to innovation, there are countless ways things might go wrong.

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Manage Risk Like a Royal Marine

Harvard Business Review

In the dark of night, Corporal Mike Stevenson leads his section of seven heavily-armed Royal Marines across the deck of HMS Ark Royal toward the waiting Sea King helicopter. To understand human behavior around risk, and to learn how to manage it better, it's important to recognize that one man's fear is another man's opportunity.

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Manage Risk Like a Royal Marine

Harvard Business Review

In the dark of night, Corporal Mike Stevenson leads his section of seven heavily-armed Royal Marines across the deck of HMS Ark Royal toward the waiting Sea King helicopter. To understand human behavior around risk, and to learn how to manage it better, it's important to recognize that one man's fear is another man's opportunity.

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