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How I Got My Team To Fail More

Harvard Business Review

By 2007, PBS.org audience growth had stalled and the product pipeline was dry. Worse, the digital team was paralyzed by a deeply engrained culture of caution. We originally envisioned the metric as a formal KPI in each staffer’s annual performance review. The change was rapid and profound. Others began taking risks.

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Every Leader Needs a Challenger in Chief

Harvard Business Review

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners'' flagship fund, one of the world''s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They never released the product.

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Every Leader Needs a Challenger in Chief

Harvard Business Review

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners’ flagship fund, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They never released the product.

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Redefining the Patient Experience with Collaborative Care

Harvard Business Review

ThedaCare opened its first “collaborative care” hospital unit in a medical-surgical unit at Appleton Medical Center in 2007 after 18 months of interdisciplinary planning led by nurses. The physician leads the clinical assessment and planning process but as a team member/partner. Involve the patient.

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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. everyone met to review the prior day, and what they would do that day. everyone met again to review what they''d done. The development team was extremely cohesive. Everyone who joined the team had to leave his or her job for four months. At 7:45 a.m.

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

Over a decade after those early guerrilla user testing days, Intuit recognized it faced the “ Innovator’s Dilemma ”–the company was doing a good job of supporting their core products but they weren’t having any success creating new products and they weren’t keeping pace with the changing software industry.

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