Gaining an understanding of and commitment to a new direction is a challenging intellectual and emotional task.

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Success is 20% knowledge and 80% behavior, and one of the most challenging tasks of leadership is turning intellectual knowledge into habitual behavior.

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He says securing intellectual property (IP) ownership has become increasingly challenging because of the volume of open-source knowledge and the huge number of existing patents.

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