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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 9, 2011
In researching my book The Rare Find , I focused on a small group of world-class organizations that pull ahead of competitors by making the most of jagged-resume candidates. Linear Technology looks for tinkerers, who have been experimenting with electrical circuits since childhood. Teach for America looks for perseverance.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 22, 2017
Jobs in retail, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture are highly vulnerable to technological change. Or child care, elder care, psychological services, rehabilitation, or meeting space for community groups? It also offers a buffer against the downsides of technological unemployment for employees.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 24, 2011
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.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2018
Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
In the technology world, we’ve seen the tremendous impact that eBay has made in helping small e-commerce businesses get off the ground. Now imagine if eBay went beyond providing a technology platform and entered the field of business incubation in a meaningful way, It’s an idea that could have a huge impact. Most stagnate.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 17, 2018
Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. R&D Seldom Walks Out the Door. In fact, this is unlikely.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 7, 2017
To be sure, entrepreneurs in highly specialized and technical industries need the knowledge that only users (doctors, lawyers, engineers, and the like) can provide. Any less and the company will lose sight of what its customers need; any more and the group will tend to converge on old ideas. If you need an appendectomy, call a surgeon.
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