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The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures
In this Harvard Business Review article, Gary Pisano shines a light on innovative cultures and analyzes why it is so hard to achieve an innovative organizational culture. According to Pisano, innovative cultures are paradoxical, having two sides of the coin. Innovative cultures have attractive, even ‘fun’ aspects, but are married with some tougher and less fun behaviors. Attempts to create innovative cultures will fail, unless these tensions are carefully managed: