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L. Vaughan Spencer's latest pearls of wisdom

By The Economist online

A YEAR ago today we interviewed L. Vaughan Spencer, a notable British management thinker, on what businesses can do to be more "succeedy". So this would seem an appropriate time to hear about his latest big idea: "Why thinking is the enemy of innovation". Here he is:

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