Sat.Sep 24, 2022

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Potemkin villages and faking innovation

Idea to Value

Sometimes, innovation teams will attempt to show fake success in order to hide their real struggles. Have you ever heard of a Potemkin village? According to historical stories, in 1787 Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski of Russia was tasked with settling more Russians into the land of Crimea, which at that time had just been annexed from the Ottoman Empire in 1783.

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Why Economies Become Less Dynamic as They Age

Harvard Business Review

Mancur Olsen’s 1982 classic, “The Rise and Decline of Nations,” offers a startling lens on what’s gone wrong with the U.S. economy.

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