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10 Remarkable People on Having a Career That Matters

Harvard Business Review

Fired from that firm in 2002, he now runs a nonprofit and two biotech companies. Sometimes it depends on people misunderstanding each other, and that’s why I don’t think there’s any such thing as a mistake in the creative process. It ended in a tie two years later.) We asked him about setting audacious goals.

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How the Best Restaurants in the World Balance Innovation and Consistency

Harvard Business Review

And instead of concentrating on cost reduction, shelf life, or replicability, they would focus on the creative process and the customer’s experience.