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Thinking Differently. Enabling Innovation

Mike Cardus

Competitive demands require quicker, more effective and innovative problem solving. Problem solvers are required to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems, develop and design new and innovative products and processes – all while reducing research and development time and costs. 1.716.629.3678. 1.716.629.3678.

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Do I Have to Come up With All The Great Ideas!? Why this belief means you suck as a manager.

Mike Cardus

I’ve seen this happen many times: Employee to Manager: I’ve got a great idea and think that by doing x we will get y,z and extra outcomes. Manager Responds: Yes that is good, and if you would just do p, q, and r we would achieve y, z and more outcomes. Employee to Manager: Yeah I see I will do it that way. Photo Credit.

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Five whats and a how – solution-focused method to make team progress

Mike Cardus

AND you need Five Whats and a How to catalyze innovation. When you’re thinking about improvements or a process of things you want to enhance or innovate, generally, you start with defining some of the best hopes you want to achieve. The client brought up to five whys. 5 whys work pretty well. What does better look like?

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Finding what works to solve problems and make progress through coaching

Mike Cardus

You’ll learn: A research-based process to coach yourself and make progress through complex challenges Strategies and tools for improving the performance of any team An innovative, proven approach to managing complexity and change in teams A coaching model that can be applied to organizations, teams, and individuals How these methods have been applied (..)

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3 Ways Remarkable Leaders Get Noticed

Tanveer Naseer

This drink wasn’t invented in a product development lab at Starbucks headquarters; it was the creation of an assistant store manager who took the initiative to experiment and come up with something new and different — and it ended up being a big hit. You don’t have to be an executive or even a manager to be a problem-solver.

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Trust

Lead on Purpose

He discusses the concept of building a trust account, which is similar to a bank account. By behaving in ways that build trust you make deposits, by behaving in ways that destroy trust you make withdrawals. – The Product Management Perspective: Trust is the most important characteristic a product manager can possess.

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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. It takes an active HR department and research team to keep their eyes on shifting trends in order to find innovative ways to retain employees.

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