Best of 2018

Wish you and your loved ones a very happy and prosperous New Year 2019. For the tenth year now, sharing the compilation of the most incisive stories and research from the domains of creativity, strategy, and innovation from 2018. Here are the 52 stories from the past year. 

Hope you would find it useful. Do share suitably. 

Thanks.

Leadership and Change

The world's 50 greatest leaders (Fortune Magazine)

The best performing CEOs in the world 2018 (Harvard Business Review)

What the hell happened at GE? (Fortune Magazine)

How CEOs manage time (Harvard Business Review)

The best leaders are great teachers (Harvard Business Review)

Secrets of 13 of the world's most productive people (Fast Company)

The rise and fall of Carlos Ghosn (Fortune Magazine)

The agile manager (McKinsey & Co.)

Creativity

What makes humans inventive? (The Economist)

Africa: A crucible of creativity (Harvard Business Review)

Drunk people are better at creative problem solving (Harvard Business Review)

Better brainstorming (Harvard Business Review)

Why are some people more creative than others? (Scientific American)

100 most creative people in business (Fast Company)

Innovation

Repair is as important as innovation (The Economist)

World's most innovative companies 2018 (BCG)

Reevaluating incremental innovation (Harvard Business Review)

AEI's President on measuring the impact of ideas (Harvard Business Review)

The year in science and what Americans thoughts about it (Scientific American)

Innovators under 35 (MIT Tech Review)

10 female founders whose innovations inspire (Fast Company)

Robust routines impact company culture more than innovative talent (HT Mint)

Taking the measure of innovation (McKinsey & Co.)

Design Thinking

Why design thinking works (Harvard Business Review)

Why design thinking eludes Indians (Medium)

The business value of design (McKinsey & Co.)

How IBM is training its workforce to think like designers (Fortune Magazine)

Ideo Managing Director Fred Dust on the lost art of conversation (Fast Company)

What other countries can learn from Singapore's schools (The Economist)

SAP Design Chief explains how to scale design across organizations (Fortune Magazine)

Entrepreneurship and Startups

Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley (The Economist)

Alibaba and the future of business (Harvard Business Review)

Strategy for startups (Harvard Business Review)

James Dyson on his 'tedious' creative process (Fortune Magazine)

Technology 

Collaborative intelligence: Humans and AI are joining forces (Harvard Business Review)

How tech is transforming HR (Harvard Business Review)

Can MOOCs solve your training problem? (Harvard Business Review)

Seven New Year resolutions for big-tech (MIT Tech Review)

US election campaign technology from 2008 to 2018, and beyond (MIT Tech Review)

Inside the Jordan refugee camp that runs on blockchain (MIT Tech Review)

10 breakthrough technologies 2018 (MIT Tech Review)

Is art created by AI really art? (Scientific American)

The biggest technology failures of 2018 (MIT Tech Review)

Strategy and Business Models

Melinda Gates: Why I'm betting on diversity (Fast Company)

United Way's CEO on shifting a century-old business model (Harvard Business Review)

The product management talent dilemma (McKinsey & Co.)

How Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM sell AI as a Service (Fast Company)

How to capitalise on your team's diversity (Scientific American)

The top 10 insights of 2018 (McKinsey & Co.)

Mind and Self-development

Five dimensions of curiosity (Harvard Business Review)

How exercise affects your brain (Scientific American)

Does mindfulness really work? (Scientific American)  

Why we can't quit the QWERTY keyboard (MIT Tech Review)

What makes the human brain special (Scientific American)