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Innovation as language action

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By learning seven foundational practices, anyone can become a skillful innovator.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 5
            Two decades of the language-action perspective
            May 2006
            125 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/1125944
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