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Sep 2025
30m 43s

Supercharging Innovation with “Flash Tea...

Harvard Business Review
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Across industries, organizations are struggling to move as quickly as they need to on key priorities and new initiatives. The solution for many, says Stanford's Melissa Valentine, might be "flash teams" -- project groups that can be instantly, efficiently, and cost-effectively brought together and organized via online labor markets and AI and other digital t ... Show More
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