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Businesses Are Unintentionally Limiting Their Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

For example, consider a farming company that asked website users for ideas on new features. million contributors to understand how organizations unknowingly influence the ideas they receive. What they discovered was that when organizations consistently chose similar ideas, it created a trend. The researchers examined 1.44

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The Optimal Margin of Illusion

Great Leadership By Dan

One of the pitfalls leaders in large organizations face is losing touch with their customers and employees as they move up in their companies. For example, you may need someone who can challenge your thinking in regard to your firm''s strategy or a different person who does the same in regard to talent within your organization.

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WHE01: 5 Components of Workforce Health Engagement

Engaging Leader

For example, wellness communication and education, steering employees to appropriate hospitals and providers, epidemiology and population health management, online tools for health care consumerism, healthy workplace eating options, gamification, workplace clinics, benefit plan design, disease management, and more. Health Consumerism.

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How To Discover Your Organization’s Next Big Growth Opportunities

Tanveer Naseer

One of them is the ability to look at your organization not as a collection of business units but as a portfolio of embedded competencies and assets that can potentially be repurposed, redeployed, or recombined to create new value. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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Ready to Grow Your Business? How to Appeal to Niche Audiences

Strategy Driven

The more interactions and positive experiences that your customers have with you, the more likely they are to convert from consumer into a brand advocate, and so the message of your brand will spread organically. You want your campaign to be inclusive and not something that restricts the idea of diversity. Your business is stable.

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To Seize the Future, Create a Leadership Circle

Harvard Business Review

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. The hope was that the diversity of brainpower and perspectives would yield imaginative ways to outgrow the shortfall. What’s needed is a way to enhance, even exploit, the value of the diversity in the room.

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How to Give the Same Talk to Different Audiences

Harvard Business Review

To provide a great experience for attendees, you generally want to focus on the topic the organizers have requested – the “greatest hits” that you’re known for. This can easily be accomplished via email or a quick phone conversation with the organizer.