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Unlocking Creativity: Are These Creativity-Inhibiting Mindsets Holding You Back?

Leading Blog

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. In a world where we must adapt or die, we need creative solutions. But realistically, creativity is not like that.

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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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Easy Ways To Improve Employee Productivity

HR Digest

Generally, most jobs are performed by employees who operate the machines, run business models and design new corporate procedures. In this kind of management, an established framework is given by the manager and then the employees operate within it. The fact is: increased productivity is a result of smart work, not just hard work.

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How to Become Truly Social

Coaching Tip

3) Don’t let “freedom from” obstruct “freedom to.” Social media can help liberate employees from traditional hierarchies and structures that stifle collaboration and innovation but only if new frameworks replace what previously existed. Sticking with Southwest Airlines, why do their flight attendants entertain their passengers?

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The Stage Where Most Innovation Projects Fail

Harvard Business Review

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. Are people moving from the innovation lab or pilot test team to help with the roll-out? So how to improve?

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David-and-Goliath Partnerships Bring Innovation to Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Consider Southwest Airlines, which shook up the airline industry with its low-cost, high-customer service approach to air travel. A year later, we did acquire them — but rather than swallow RelayHealth whole, we wanted to preserve its innovative DNA and disseminate it across our company.

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When "Creative Destruction" Destroys More than It Creates

Harvard Business Review

A similar pattern hold for airlines. Some of this, business historians might say, is simply due to what Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" — a desirable culling of businesses that can't keep pace. Stock markets might seem capricious, but in the long term, shareholder returns closely track operational performance. "We