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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

If you're not running an innovative innovation contest to invite participation and build brand, then you're reacting to your competitor's competition. Devices of all kinds have gone from advertising, branding, and marketing media to promotional platforms. Will your contest be competitive with their contest? Who's running it?

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

And its participants were the kind of accomplished, ambitious, and mobile managers for which companies wage talent wars. Depending on where the market is heading and the trends we see in business, I am very open to different things. “It’s very comforting,” said one participant toward the end of the year.

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Research: We’re Not Very Self-Aware, Especially at Work

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve participated in a training or development program in the past two decades, chances are you took an assessment designed to increase self-awareness. While you may have discovered your “type,” “profile,” or “style,” it probably did little to make you a more effective leader or team member.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline. In each simulated time period, the player makes strategic decisions and receives feedback from past decisions—on how fast to grow, how to set prices, or how aggressively to advertise.