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Focus, the Differentiator

Look around. Think back to your organizational experience. I have done the same. Over three decades working in organizations and carrying out research into organizations, I have come to the

The World’s Most Influential Business Thinkers 2017

Roger Martin, a strategic advisor and former dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, has been named the world’s leading business thinker by Thinkers50, a London-based consulting firm.

Operationalising Ideas

Ideas are important, as without ideas there can be no progress.  But not all ideas are good or make a positive contribution to business and society.  Some ideas may be

Book cover of 'What We Mean When We Talk About Innovation' by Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove.

Bright Ideas

Sometimes it helps to be mad.  Most great ideas have been laughed at.  And, truth to tell, sometimes inventors become a little carried away at the possibilities – Jacob Schick,

Mercaderes del ¡GUAU!

Thinkers50, el foro más prestigioso del mundo en liderazgo y management, entregó el pasado mes de noviembre sus míticos Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award. Estos premios, considerados por el Financial Times

Innovating Strategy

IBM made $6 billion in 1990 and lost $5 billion two years later. The company, one of the twentieth century corporate greats, failed to change with the market and only

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In Conversation: Rita McGrath

The End of Competitive Advantage was a hugely successful book, and a real breakthrough book for you, but it’s been a few years now, so what have you worked on

Carol Fishman Cohen

50 Second Q&A: Carol Fishman Cohen

Carol Fishman Cohen is CEO and Co-founder of iRelaunch. Her return to work at Bain Capital after 11 years out of the full-time workforce is documented in a Harvard Business

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