Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 29, 2013

These scientists and engineers develop innovative products and breakthrough ideas. Quiet time allows innovative ideas to percolate and emerge. Quiet time allows you to better understand yourself and others by getting clear about your own motivations, goals and values before you step into a situation. 5. Keep it fresh.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 3, 2023

Lastly, they would complete a final questionnaire that examined their productivity at the end of the day. The results show that when employees felt like they looked good and that their clothing was unique in some way, this resulted in them having higher self-esteem, which itself made them more productive and more likely to hit their goals.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 5, 2013

Mrked is a tech accessories company that not only offers quality, fashionable products, but also a chance for you to “Leave a Mrk” on the world. Walking into the Apple store, you may have noticed the vast selection of iPhone snap cases and high-end fashionable cases that barely offered your $500 investment any protection.

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Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It’s the critical foundation for creating an environment where your team members can flourish, be engaged, and exercise their creativity and innovation to achieve their goals and those of the organization. For leaders, trust is a must. But trust is under attack. When leaders are trusted by their followers, anything is possible.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fear based motivations don’t instill loyalty, create trust, build morale, inspire creativity, attract talent, or drive innovation. My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion. The boss will never go for that.&#

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

Despite what many leaders believe, strategic thinking is NOT quantitative analysis – eg, generating sales forecasts – nor quantitative goals – eg, $100 million in revenues. For most companies, strategic planning focuses on breaking down a goal into action steps and connecting those steps to resources, timelines and budgets.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 21, 2012

How can organizations use the diversity of thought and opinion that so many recognize as being key to our ability to innovate and grow if our employees don’t feel comfortable expressing that diversity? Remember, your goal should not be to please everyone, or even silence your most vocal detractors.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 21, 2012

How can organizations use the diversity of thought and opinion that so many recognize as being key to our ability to innovate and grow if our employees don’t feel comfortable expressing that diversity? Remember, your goal should not be to please everyone, or even silence your most vocal detractors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. You’ll find yourself creating unsuccessful products that don’t serve your customers. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. I am a product of my decisions.”.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization. It is absolutely possible to build very productive relationships with even the most adversarial of individuals.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. And when they don't deliver, or deliver an inferior product because it is beyond their scope, or capabilities, it further erodes the relationships with other departments, managers and each other.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. While being motivated solely by conquest may allow you to achieve a stated goal or objective, the cost will be great. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 2, 2012

” There were to be no limits to our design, creation and iteration of these products – except, of course, they had to be made out of duct tape. In true Brown fashion, we had an astrophysicist, a philosopher, two biomedical engineers, and an international development major (me). Our initial reaction was to go large scale.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

In dormitory fashion, I stayed with 24 women between the ages of 18 and 65 years of age, four of whom were eating breakfast the morning of my first day of work. The path is sometimes long, ridden with mistakes and struggles, but for the patient teachers and persistent workers, the process is worth far more than the end product.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’re still on the fence, I would request you try and answer the following question: If you can engage those with whom you conduct business, or otherwise desire to interact with in a meaningful and value added fashion why wouldn’t you do so? Thoughts? However the goal is not to do it quickly, it's to do it well.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Radical flattening of organizations is a fashionable recipe for dealing with accelerating change and uncertainty. Would you share an example from an organization doing it right?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

My readers take action from my articles: click on linked articles or sites; download free books/chapters ; buy a product ; share/RT/Like daily. I have 3 blogs that often get onto best lists, such as top innovative content, top sales blog, top business blog. Daily, I get Thank You notes that begin conversations and sell products.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

A strong personal brand is so much more than a memorable name or product. Hubert Rampersad ​"Passionate and compassionate to inspire learning individuals to unlock their potential and dedicated to energize innovative organizations within the service and manufacturing industry. ​ 4.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. The most creative and productive way [to apply design thinking] is to engage people—the [stakeholders]—in the process. Design thinking can be a critical tool for addressing leadership challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone. What if I don't have that foundation?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? It is the intensity of its people’s passion for innovation that animates IDEOs processes, he contends, forming a culture that’s “not typical, and not easy to emulate.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. Our goal is to form a master/apprentice relationship: we enter these research activities as a humble apprentice, expecting to learn from a master.

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CO2

AUGUST 13, 2010

Consistency in others is demonstrated by a strong track record of success and acting in a predictable fashion. This post is part of a series on understanding trust in the workplace. Often when you read leadership books, blogs, or journals, you will be inundated with views on how leaders build trust. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

If that is your gift – leverage email, texts, etc to extend it, but not to replace the ‘old fashioned way’ Nice thought this morning Mary Jo. The thankyou doesn’t cost the company anything and consider the benefits in productivity and loyalty! Mary Jo Asmus : June 21, 2010 at 8:57 pm Welcome, Scott!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

When people who share the same ambitious goals come together, they can move mountains. Any company that wants to improve collaboration, break down so-called siloes, or live into its diversity goals will be well-served by pursuing a deeper understanding of each. The company issued innovation challenges related to its strategic plan.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Think about what people dislike most about your industry, service, or product offering. What solutions can you offer?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

But, for most companies, outsize returns are likely to come from three other sources: Investing in productivity-enhancing capital. In a world of tight labor markets, where recruiting and retention are at a premium, investing to make frontline employees more productive should be a priority. Investing in true innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 18, 2023

This results in increased fossil-fuel emissions from transportation, and additionally, many companies, even those that promote sustainability, often discard returned products. According to estimates, the total value of discarded textile and electronic products in the EU could reach a staggering EUR 21.74 billion in 2022.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

America — and many other countries — need an audacious goal to get off the unsustainable path. What if the United States set itself the goal of cutting healthcare costs in half — without sacrificing quality, and in about a decade? He didn’t do it by making cars shoddier or offshoring production to low-wage countries.

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