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February 19, 2021 - No, Your Idea Doesn't Need to Be Original to Be Successful

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Stand-up Meetings Inhibit Innovation

Andy Wu of Harvard Business School and his doctoral student Sourobh Ghosh embedded a field experiment in a Google hackathon to investigate the impact of stand-up meetings - a core component of agile management practices - on innovation. They found that the teams that engaged in them developed less-novel products. The conclusion: Stand-up meetings inhibit innovation.

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