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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 6 of 7

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Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

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Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7

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Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7

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Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 7 of 7

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When leaders are willing to make the shift away from bureaucratic work styles and structures, develop listening as a key management competence, generate cultures that welcome innovation, and build systems and processes that support this new way of working, their people will once again experience meaning and purpose in their working lives.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7

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In other words, we’re paying people to think, to innovate, and to collaborate with others to produce the best possible results. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. Name and address information required. Consider leaving a comment! Lock in and Engage Top Talent.

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How to Grow Your Strategic Mindset

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Tactical: Moving the pieces to get where you want to go. A thought leader in her field, Ann has worked with many hundreds of organizations around the world of all sizes and industries, helping them increase their thinking agility to improve profitability, leadership, productivity, innovation and overall business results.