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What Happens To Productivity After Minimum Wage Increases?

The Horizons Tracker

Traditionally, those opposed to the minimum wage would argue that its introduction would stop employers from creating low-productivity jobs as certain workers simply don’t provide sufficient value to justify the new wage floor. The researchers overcame this by analyzing productivity data from a U.S.

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What Impact Does Foreign Direct Investment Have On Productivity?

The Horizons Tracker

It’s an approach that may have negative consequences on the economic productivity of both the home country of the company and the country it invests in, however, as new research from Temple University explains. The analysis found that routing FDI via tax havens had different impact on the productivity of the home and host country.

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Is A Growth Mindset Key To Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

Even since Stanford’s Carol Dweck bought the growth and fixed mindsets to widespread attention in 2012, the virtues of a growth mindset have been attributed to all manner of wholesome values. The researchers believe their work has practical implications for organizations as they strive to innovate. ” Varied virtues.

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Top 10 Most Read Leadership Blog Posts of First Half 2021

Let's Grow Leaders

One of the interesting parts of being regular leadership writers (we’ve been blogging here at Let’s Grow Leaders since 2012), is to see which of our leadership blog posts resonate the most with our readers and why. A Post-Pandemic Productivity Gift You Can Bring Back to the Office (June 2021). Read how here.

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The May, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

In this post, the author discusses problems with the my way or the highway mentality and introduces ways for leaders to avoid stifling creativity and innovation in those they lead. Carol Morrison from i4cp’s Productivity Blog presents Executive Leadership: Trending Toward Trouble. Very interesting culture". Is that such a bad thing?

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Innovation High-Five

Mills Scofield

By Tim Kippley: Jeff Bezos, one of the planet’s greatest innovators, once said that: “You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas and senior executives [that] encourage ideas.” ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. I have long felt that companies can’t survive without innovating.

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The Risks Of Building Innovation Ecosystems

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers explored economic data from over 350 metropolitan areas across the US from 2003 to 2012, to explore whether this is a common phenomenon.