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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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The Benefits of the Best Equipment In Business

Strategy Driven

Doing too much in a short space of time can be stressful. Innovative Appearance. If you take advantage of the broad range of new technologies on offer, you can demonstrate to customers and investors that you are an innovative business that looks towards the future. Too many companies get stuck in the past and set in their ways.

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4 Ways to Help Different Generations Share Wisdom at Work

Harvard Business Review

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument. Adopting a growth mindset vs. a fixed mindset lets you see more options, which can help reduce stress and anxiety and boost your resilience.

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. Yes — because my preference is to invest in people I know and like. Lesson 2: Establish rules of engagement.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

But the downstream impact of making such a choice in a moment of stress or carelessness can be devastating. Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? MISTAKE #5: Punishing ‘good failures.’ There can be no reward without risk.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

They also stressed organizational learning (meaning, capturing the methods of Lean so that other parts of the organizations could adopt them). In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. You have some physical understanding of the way in which the traffic is going to vibrate the bridge and cause stresses on the supports, but there’s a range of possible models of how much vibration the trucks are going to make.

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