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Leading with Character: Creativity

Michael Lee Stallard

At 3M, they have an Entrepreneurial Policy which allows employees to spend up to 15 percent of their time at work developing their own creative ideas for the betterment of the company and the creation of new products or services. Actions You Can Take to Develop Creativity Among Your Team.

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How to Avoid Groupthink and Let Your Employees Truly Shine

HR Digest

A part of the employee’s responsibilities could involve idea generation or problem-solving, where employees can be encouraged to find new ways to approach a problem. Through anonymous suggestion boxes, regular HR availability, action against reported incidents, regular reviews of workplace policies , etc.

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How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss

Harvard Business Review

However, many cannot see their way through existing HR policies and short-term business imperatives to know how to respond to such requests — let alone be proactive in suggesting possibilities to their people. Managing employees is not easy, and for the most part, human resource policies in large organizations are designed to simplify things.

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A Story from Google Shows You Don’t Need Power to Drive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. He developed unique insight to solve an emerging need and then he drove transformational change to realize that vision.

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What the Research Tells Us About Team Creativity and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The idea generation stage is often referred to as divergent thinking or exploration. Unless you plan to have your team hand off its creative ideas, you will need to create a team that can operate in both modes, switching among them as appropriate. The routes to team innovation are still being developed.

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The Big Picture of Business – Planning and Budgeting in Downsized Times

Strategy Driven

Business development. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Creative new ideas generated. Human resources development.

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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

Business development. Processes, policies and procedures to make better widgets and a better organization. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Creative new ideas generated. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture. Making the widget itself.