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Jun 2021
25m 45s

How Leaders Can Encourage Imagination

Harvard Business Review
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Martin Reeves, managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute, has looked at how companies reinvent themselves to achieve success. And he has found that an essential ingredient in that process is imagination. It’s something we cultivate in children but rarely practice deliberately in the business world. He explains how ... Show More
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