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Silver Lining
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Silver Lining

by Scott D. Anthony
June 2009
Intermediate to advanced
145 pages
4h 3m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Drive Personal Reinvention

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” Unfortunately, most managers can’t pass this test. The Great Disruption will require many managers to go to “innovation school” to develop the skills to master paradox.

The word crisis was popular in 2008. At one point or another, pundits talked about the oil crisis, the global warming crisis, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and, of course, the credit crisis. The hidden crisis emerging from the economic rubble of 2007–2008 is how corporate leaders have to deal with a challenge for which they are completely unprepared. A generation ...

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