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Innovation Begins (and remains) at the Top

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post By John Sweeney: Innovation is foundational to business leadership. We empower individuals across disciplines to evaluate, orchestrate, strategize, create and hire, but most importantly, we empower others to innovate. But for innovation, responsibility begins and remains at the highest levels of leadership.

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Lisa Hershman: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Lisa Hershman is a seasoned business professional and author, who brings a wealth of real-world experience and an innovative style to her position at Hammer and Company. Prior to joining Hammer and Company, she served as Corporate Senior Vice President of Operational Excellence at Avnet, Inc.,

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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. Most companies get metrics all wrong. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

Technology advocates argue that the nature of technology, which has often made things either significantly cheaper, or free entirely, provide benefits that are not easily captured by traditional economic metrics of productivity. Innovation dissemination , which is the movement of these ideas and technologies into mainstream usage.

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How to Write a Resume That Stands Out

Harvard Business Review

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. . “There’s nothing quick or easy about crafting an effective resume,” says Jane Heifetz, a resume expert and founder of Right Resumes. Improved performance over past emails producing average open rates of more than 20%.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

Or you could try to take advantage of limitations in conventional financial metrics to get higher long-run returns by focusing on sustainability and social good. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. We don’t want to go there.