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Why You May Be Blind to a Good Idea (and What to Do About It)

Harvard Business Review

So we have to use lessons from the science of attention blindness to construct teams in a way that eliminates group think (where the group rallies around one idea oftentimes at the expense of others that may have been "blind") and yields innovative new ideas they might be missing if they're not actively addressing blind spots.

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What New Team Leaders Should Do First

Harvard Business Review

How do you form group norms, establish clear goals, and create an environment where everyone feels comfortable and motivated to contribute? People form opinions pretty quickly, and these opinions tend to be sticky,” says Michael Watkins, the cofounder of Genesis Advisers and author of the updated The First 90 Days. “If

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Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors

Harvard Business Review

Given this, CECP partnered with KKS Advisors, an advisory and research firm where one of us works and the other is cofounder, to explore the information content of these plans, create a framework analyzing the content of the reports, and examine how capital market participants respond to them.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

In a similar vein, Stanford had few large corporate partners to collaborate with, and so sought out entrepreneurs. If the group had had an idea for a smartphone app, they would have been off to the races, but there was little interest in hard technology like theirs.

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Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity

Harvard Business Review

These figures were similar at other tech companies, most of which had fewer than 20% of their technical positions filled by women and had low representation of black and Hispanic employees. The percentage of technical positions filled by women at Yelp in the U.S. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female.