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Motivating People Starts with Having the Right Attitude

Harvard Business Review

Most leaders know what strong motivation looks like. But many leaders have little idea of how to boost or sustain that level of motivation. Many leaders don’t understand that they are an integral part of the motivational ecosystem in their companies. Managers generally start out with the best of intentions.

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Today's Innovation Can Rise from Yesterday's Failure

Harvard Business Review

In other words, successful innovation requires motive, means, and opportunity. We have been working with more and more clients who are developing a somewhat more enlightened view of past failure. Within just a few weeks, we had triaged those ideas using current information to identify three major new global platforms for development.

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8 Ways to Have a Successful Partnership

Leading Blog

In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. Besides, watching peers make money is far more motivating than a month of training and pep talks. There is no substitute for grass roots research.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

” As Michael Hammer famously remarked in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, successful dissemination of technology often requires a reconstruction of the processes that underpin the way our organizations function. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.