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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Innovation Thrives Despite Piracy

The Horizons Tracker

After all, when people could get your core offering for free, not only would that harm your income but it would discourage the industry from producing content and stifle innovation. Research from the University of Southern California explains why piracy wasn’t the death knell of innovation so many feared. Thriving creativity.

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Top 10 Most Read Leadership Blog Posts of First Half 2021

Let's Grow Leaders

7 Ways to Help Your Team Deal With Ambiguity (2014). This leadership blog from 2014 continues to be our most-read leadership article. A Post-Pandemic Productivity Gift You Can Bring Back to the Office (June 2021). How to Accidently Sabotage Team Innovation (February 2021). Read how here. Going back to the office?

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Always Day One

Leading Blog

C REATING an innovative culture is not easy. Organizations that continuously innovate have common characteristics. It not really about always day one , but I presume he chose the title because day one is a mindset that is foundational to sustaining an innovative culture. It often defies convention. Always Day One.

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Everything You Need to Know About Oilfield Services

Strategy Driven

The oilfield services industry (OFS) encompasses all products and services related to oil exploration and extraction. Cost-Effective Oilfield services are vital to oil and gas exploration and production success. Production technicians work on rigs to operate equipment that helps extract and process oil.

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Preview Thursday: Beyond Sizzle

Lead Change Blog

Over the years, branding experts have used their understanding of psychology of social identification to excel at mining the desires of people to be associated with products that confirmed membership in a group that was sexier, richer, or even a little smarter than the next group. 52% check product packaging to ensure sustainable impact.

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T.O.I.L.E.T. Training™ -- a breakthrough system to improve workplace learning

Great Leadership By Dan

PHILADELPHIA, April 1, 2014 -- Rapid Learning Institute (RLI) pulled back the curtain today on its latest innovation in workplace education: the T.O.I.L.E.T. Today’s workers and organizations are under unprecedented pressure to maintain high productivity,” said RLI Research Director Walter P. In 2014, the T.O.I.L.E.T.

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