Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

When human learning slows down, people tend to lose creative and problem solving capacity. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. It is important to encourage and support even when the creative efforts of others fail.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. As it notes, “When we operate according to these principles, the stockholders should realize a fair return.”. Embrace your organization’s humanity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

David Foster Wallace provided an eloquent description of how muscle memory contributes to "kinesthetic sense" in a brilliant New York Times article about Roger Federer in 2006. They look for creative, right-brained types that they assume will succeed at innovation. I've seen companies make two misguided assumptions.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

Jeanne has a good relationship with Roger Martin and he introduced her to the ideas many years ago and all of a sudden these themes began popping out and almost in a design-like way. We began seeing those themes emerge and from their we realized, “Okay, we really needed to focus in on design thinking and find out how we can learn more.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

You can change who James Bond is—Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig—without destroying the franchise… Whereas with Rocky, you’re pretty much stuck with Sylvester Stallone.” ” Creative Sequences. So it gives you added freedom. And then came Windows 7.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

This type of app typically operates on the basis of a user pointing his mobile device towards an object or a site, in order to see superimposed content on the screen. And AR is reinforcing consumers’ appetite for compelling and creative visualizations of content.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

For C1400 this is not a style as much as some areas for reflection ( they call it a “code&# ) and are Awareness, Focus, Creativity, Integrity, Perseverance and Service. In today’s blog post I’ll attempt to paint the portrait of the perfect leader… So, what traits would my perfect leader possess?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Creative and sci­entific work has migrated to teams and, more recently, to large, distributed teams like the hundreds of scientists that worked on the human genome project. b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments. As a result, a new era is emerging.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Nearly all of these practices run counter to conventional banking wisdom, which holds that to be efficient a bank must consolidate operational activities and centralize decision making on matters like pricing and lending. The case of Svenska Handelsbanken is illustrative.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Roger Martin has proposed that the overweening pursuit of shareholder value be upgraded to the pursuit of human value. Richard Florida has suggested that we optimize for creative capital — not just financial capital.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Trust and Inspire is a new way of leading that starts with the belief that people are creative, collaborative, and full of potential.

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