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Preparing for Re-entry into the Physical Workplace: Lessons from NASA

Michael Lee Stallard

Previously I’ve written about how relational disconnection between NASA engineers and senior managers contributed to the fatal accidents of the space shuttles Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003. Trauma experts expect the mental health ramifications of the pandemic will rise once the physical threat of COVID-19 declines.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. The employee was forbidden to work on the project. It was immediately launched.

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Is Becoming Self-Employed All It’s Cracked Up To Be?

The Horizons Tracker

The research examined data from the National Science Foundation on over 28,000 scientists and engineers to assess any changes in their employment status and their work outcomes between 2003 and 2010. It’s a form of work the authors argue is five times more prevalent than gig work.

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Attracting Top Contributors to an Open Innovation Project

Harvard Business Review

“Not all smart people work for you,” begins Henry Chesbrough’s classic 2003 HBR article on the merits of open innovation. Firms must find a way to tap into external knowledge and ideas to innovate. It suggests that to attract the most productive contributors, companies may have to give up more control over their project.

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9 Team Dynamics That Get Results

Mike Cardus

Two key leader roles are required for a project team. Additionally taking time to know expertise and special interests of team members will all people to me matched to their capacity to complete the project tasks, as they are assigned. Teams must have leadership. One is the strategic leader and the other is the team leader.

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What Is The Job Metaverse Is Trying To Do?

The Horizons Tracker

This has profound implications for people who hope to use VR to make accurate projections regarding future behaviors,” the researchers explain. “Using VR to examine how people think and behave in real life may very well lead to conclusions that are fundamentally wrong. Experiences in VR may be a poor proxy for real life.”.

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The Planning Fallacy and the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. But anyone with near-term innovation targets with nine (or six or even four) digits in them should ensure they are familiar with the concept of "planning fallacy.". The average actual cost?