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JANUARY 31, 2017

Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by ‏@HessEdward. Seven Attributes of the Most Innovative Cultures by Gordon Redding via @INSEADKnowledge. Unleashing Creativity And Avoiding Groupthink by Michelle M Smith via @octanner. The Impoverishment of Attention by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet. Do You Lead Positive?

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EPS Groupthink Gordon Learning-by-Doing 150

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Hello Deb, The EP [Entrepreneur Program] leaders would like to thank you again for speaking to us at Ben and Jerry's. Ashley: " To be entrepreneurial is to be creative--thank you for reinforcing that Deb!". Joseph: " Dear Deb, Thank you for giving EP members an opportunity to hear you speak. They are our future!

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Mentor EPS Magazine Class 158

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation. In fact, WB does have a history of innovation. When Robert Iger, Disney chair and CEO, purchased Pixar for $7.4

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Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. Creative accounting measures. This measure has been validated by extensive academic research. Corporate culture.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Our accustomed modes of thinking are straitjackets constraining the human energy and creativity these tools could unleash. Consider management actions such as cutting jobs and investment as a response to currency fluctuations and the resulting accounting impact of those cuts on earnings per share (EPS).

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Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In your testimony to Congress on May 21, 2013, when you explained Apple’s tax practices, you said: “You can tell the story of Apple’s success in just one word: innovation.” I agree and ask you to consider what public shareholders and stock buybacks have to do with innovation at Apple. Social innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

I'm sure I asked this next question in the kind of holier-than-thou voice that only a 20-something can conjure: Why would I shift my career from Apple and GoLive (a hot web authoring software) to CAD, where innovation levels and growth were single digit? Nilofer Merchant is a corporate advisor and speaker on innovation methods.

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EPS Strategy Reference Execution 15