Innovation in Turbulent Times: Two Heads are Better than One

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In their article Innovation in Turbulent Times, Darrell Rigby, Kara Gruver, and James Allen make the case that the key to growth is pairing an analytic left-brain thinker with an imaginative right-brain partner:

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Fine, but the problem is that in most "rational" industries - dominated by "maximize shareholder value" thinking, there no room at the top for the creative thinker.  In fact, I would argue that most companies are too sharply skewed to the left brain. The CEO, CFO and the heads of all the business units are too focused on P&L to think outside the proverbial box.

They need to improve their "intuitive intelligence" by chatting with Francis Cholle >>

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