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2008 Quought for the Day #14 – Steve Shapiro | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

I will be posting answers (which will be Quoughts) one by one.This one is from Stephen Shapiro During his 15-year tenure with the international consulting firm Accenture, Stephen developed and delivered innovation training to over 20,000 consultants. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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Innovative Companies Demand Innovative Leaders

Harvard Business Review

CEOs of average companies, in comparison, scored at about the 68th percentile. Jobs was so impressed that he took his entire programming team on a tour of PARC and returned to Apple hell-bent on developing a personal computer that both incorporated and improved upon the technologies he and his team saw.

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Don’t Offer Employees Big Rewards for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

You’re better off implementing low-powered rewards, which are much cheaper and yield a more manageable stream of ideas. Various management scholars, for instance, have argued that rewards are hard to administer and may corrupt employees’ motivation and creativity. is far from settled, even after years of research.

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A Story from Google Shows You Don’t Need Power to Drive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

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Disrupt Yourself

Harvard Business Review

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. Note too that the fear of disrupting myself early on was nothing in comparison to the mid-career thrill ride when there was so much more at risk. These require different metrics of success.

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Why Remote Work Thrives in Some Companies and Fails in Others

Harvard Business Review

government, though adoption varies by department, the Office of Personnel Management reports that remote work has increased job satisfaction, reduced employee turnover, and cut costs on several fronts, including real estate, utilities, and travel subsidies. grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. In the U.S. About 94% of U.S.