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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. After hammering out today's criteria for success, we reached out to the organization globally for as many failed ideas as possible to reevaluate in today's world. All three key domains were aligned: motive, means, and opportunity.

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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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Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement

Harvard Business Review

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. In addition, using outside experts implicitly demonstrates management's distrust of the workforce, which is de-motivating. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

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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. years old by the time they go public, compared to an average of 2.8 years as recently as 1998.