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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 6 of 7

Strategy Driven

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Afghanistan Air Force Culture Innovation Kabul Leadership Military Networking Service Strategy Switch and Shift USAF Virtues' Matthew Fritz is Director, Commander''s Action Group of NATO''s Air Training Command in Afghanistan.

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Managers in the Digital Age Need to Stay Human

Harvard Business Review

More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. Today, literally everything in the workplace is changing from the volume and complexity of job-related data to the nature of work itself. Or are they? New leadership skills are required.