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Corporate Cultures – Individual Initiated, Documented Processes Controlled Environment

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The Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment represents a culture that seeks to actively harness and channel worker creativity. These organizations foster creativity among workers in a controlled manner that enables the company achieve its mission objectives while making room for a degree of experimentation. This culture set benefits from some added creativity and consistency but does stifle full-fledged creativity in order to minimize risks.

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Complimentary Resource – Evaluating Health Plans

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Evaluating Health Plans by UnitedHealth Group Factors to Consider When Evaluating Health Plans. The costs involved, the benefits, the breadth of the network and more. Small business owners may get valuable information from UnitedHealthcare. Their guidelines may help you weigh many options. StrategyDriven has partnered with TradePub.com to offer you complimentary one-year subscriptions and/or free trials to dozens of leading business publications.

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Break the Innovation Chokehold: How to Stop Ruling Like a (Not-So-Benevolent) Dictator and Start Encouraging Big Ideas

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Do you lead your team like you’re the great and powerful head of your own nation? Hidden away in your office, shielded from others, do you deliver orders that must be followed, never considering what your employees might think? Do you parade the halls, factory floors, or store aisles of your organization, holding audience with only the small entourage of upper management trailing after you?

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Recommended Resource – What I Didn’t Learn in Business School

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What I Didn’t Learn in Business School : How Strategy Works in the Real World by Jay B. Barney and Trish Gorman Clifford About the Reference What I Didn’t Learn in Business School : How Strategy Works in the Real World by Jay Barney and Trish Gorman Clifford reveals the shortfalls of the principles learned in the idealistic academic environment when applied directly to the messy, unpredictable and politically charged business world.