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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 about a wildly successful company that went off course. Innovation had become the goal, and that wasn’t enough.

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Executive Search in Life Sciences: Identifying Leaders Aligned to Innovation and Growth

N2Growth Blog

Identifying Growth-Stage Leadership to Drive Innovation in Life Sciences Effective executive search partners play a pivotal role in identifying, attracting, and assessing the leadership best aligned to drive growth and innovation, all the more important in highly dynamic industries like life sciences.

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Learning & Skills Trends

The Horizons Tracker

In the face of rapidly advancing innovation, many organizations are grappling with the growing skills gap. Leaders today are looking to drive business results in a fast-changing world by taking a skills-first approach,” Udemy say. Growth skills This year’s report shows a big boost in certain skills.

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Four Skills That Revolutionize Team Communication

Lead Change Blog

The challenge, of course, is getting and keeping your team’s conversations in the sweet spot. Fortunately, there are four skills we can learn and develop to counteract our tendencies to win or minimize. We do that by learning and using the skills of testing and inquiring. Good work happens in the sweet spot.

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How Good Leadership Can Impact Employees’ Innovative Behavior

Leading Blog

There’s increasing pressure on organizations to be more competitive, and leaders need to have the right skills to influence employees’ innovative behavior. Besides helping them better handle workplace-related challenges, leaders evoke innovation and creativity and inspire them to reach their full potential. The answer is both.

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Stop Right There! 5 Phrases that Crush Collaboration and Tank Teamwork

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s Too Late to Change Course Now This phrase acts like quicksand for team progress, promoting a fixed and inflexible approach that could stifle innovation and adaptability. By saying it’s too late to change course, the team shuts down opportunities to adapt to new circumstances or pivot based on fresh insights.

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Growth In Online Courses During Lockdown

The Horizons Tracker

It’s perhaps no surprise, given these perfect circumstances, that the Institute of Coding (IoC) recently announced a bumper number of students enrolling on their courses since the lockdown began in March. Indeed, enrollments have grown nearly tenfold, with around 32,000 reported at the start of the year, growing to over 400,000 by June.

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