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Six Ways to Innovate in Rigid Organizations

Leadership Freak

The future rides on a horse called innovation. Organizations that can’t innovate stagnate. Some organizations have innovation in their blood. But, many are mired in systems and bureaucracy. It’s easier to begin innovating within rigid cultures than it is to change them. Think skunkworks.

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Influencing Creativity and Innovation

Persuasive Powerhouse

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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CPG Hiring Trends

N2Growth Blog

The evolution of new technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic have greatly influenced consumer habits worldwide, consumers are becoming more demanding, and companies are working on efficiencies to offset the negative impact of inflation on their P&Ls. Leaders are working on efficiencies to offset these challenges.

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Stop Numerator Thinking: Innovating Your Service Experience

Lead Change Blog

Unlocking the keys to numerator thinking can lead to increasing influence and worth among the units you serve. They cultivate, grow, innovate and invest. While they are respectful and inclusive, they know bureaucracy is the enemy of excellence and the impediment to efficiency. What do natural numerator thinkers do?

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126: Holacracy – An Agile Management System for a Rapidly Changing World | with Brian Robertson

Engaging Leader

On Engaging Leader, we’ve often discussed how 21st-century teams require going beyond traditional command-and-control leadership (which I call Influence 2.0) to a more interactive mode that I call “engagership” or Influence 3.0. One crucial principle of Influence 3.0 is delegating authority for planning and decisions.

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2 Kinds of Workplaces. 1 of Paranoia 1 of Trust

Mike Cardus

Extant (presently existing) structures and processes that reinforce our deeper-lying impulses of love, trust, kinship and friendship, and release affection, creative co-operation and innovation. Paranoiagenic – process heavily influenced by anxiety or fear. Philogenic – process heavily influenced by trust and acceptance.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. . Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach. Employee Engagement Leadership' Relax the culture. .