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Does Your Leadership Flunk the Testing Test?

Harvard Business Review

Just as the "quality" and "lean production" movements of the 80s and 90s required quality to be designed — rather than inspected — in, innovators have got to demonstrate greater ingenuity and integrity around how they integrate real-world testing into their projects and processes. These pathologies are nothing new.

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Please, Can We All Just Stop "Innovating"?

Harvard Business Review

I fear that very dynamic is unfolding today with respect to a piece of language and a leadership aspiration that has become the Holy Grail for business thinkers like me. Its leadership said, "We want to 'democratize the skies' and give rank-and-file Americans the freedom to fly." That piece of language, that aspiration, is innovation.