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What Makes a Failure Intelligent

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Meaningful Opportunity “An intelligent failure occurs as a part of what you believe is a meaningful opportunity toward a valued goal. Keep it Small “Another best practice for keeping failure as small as possible is the design of smart pilots to test new ideas before the full-scale launch of an innovation.” Suggest what to try next.

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The Journey is the Purpose: An Inspiring Tale of Nek Chand Saini

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Nek Chand Rock Garden in Chandigarh, India is a true marvel of creativity and innovation. Built by Nek Chand Saini , a self-taught innovator, Rock garden is one-of-its-kind sculpture garden in Chandigarh which almost looks like a miniature of an ancient kingdom spread over forty acres. Did he plan to win all the awards that he has won?

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Building a Business Culture That Works for Everyone: An Interview with Diane K. Adams

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[Tanmay Vora] The book has a chapter on building culture of innovation. What advice would you share with a CEO who is struggling to build a culture of innovation? Adams] First, kudos for recognizing the importance of innovation. After all, if you’re not constantly innovating, you’re falling behind your competition.

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Social Mindset: A Key to Engaging Talent

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Our workplace conversations today are dominated by topics like increasing globalization, economic uncertainties, automation, disruptive innovations, social technologies, generational shifts, mobility, people analytics, gig economy and such. Real enablement happens when people get frequent feedbacks and support throughout the year.

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Better Leadership in 2015 (And Beyond): 9 Essentials

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Leaders have to maintain constant positive momentum towards achieving the vision and goals of the team. Constant improvement (and innovation) in products and processes is one of the ways to maintain positive momentum. As a leader, if you are not making forward progress, you are already moving backwards.

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Change and Transformation – How Are They Related?

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More importantly, the overall goal of transformation is not just to execute a defined change — but to reinvent the organization and discover a new or revised business model based on a vision for the future. At Quality and Innovation blog , Nicole Radziwill also explored this critical difference between change and transformation.

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Quality & Improvement: From “Experience” to “Advocacy”

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So, quality is a moving target – each time a customer comes back to you, you need to deliver similar or better quality (of products, services and experience), you need to demonstrate improvement, care enough about them, stay on top of market trends and keep changing the rules of the game (innovation). Check it out if you haven’t already !

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