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A World Gone Social

Lead Change Blog

Discover how to identify your organization’s brand champions and internal advocates and leverage their passion and talent; and enable an OPEN (Ordinary People | Extraordinary Network) circle of collaborators to innovate, solve complex problems and achieve a common goal. How should we deal with it? Learn more and register here.

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Hacking Leadership

Lead Change Blog

This impacts our brain chemistry and releases cortisol (the fight-or-flight chemical) because we feel threatened, and compromises our ability to think, innovate, and perform well at work. How should we deal with it? Learn more and register here. The post Hacking Leadership appeared first on Lead Change.

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We Need to Ask How We Can Make Economic Growth More Inclusive

Harvard Business Review

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. Take the question that has lately been put on the political table because of the prosperity bind facing so many mature economies. Could we make growth more inclusive?”

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Uber Needs Our Permission to Grow

Harvard Business Review

DuPont was forced to dissolve its patent-pooling arrangements with foreign chemical firms and disgorge its cross-holdings in GM stock, devastating both its top and bottom lines. And on this issue of management distraction,] and organizational maturity, it is instructive to remember that Uber is impossibly young for all it has achieved.

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Your Innovation Team Shouldn’t Run Like a Well-Oiled Machine

Harvard Business Review

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Business Reengineering's high priest said core process owners, process maturity, and performance measures are what count. He also advised them to continually assess their processes against a model of process maturity — PEMM for short — which he unveiled in an HBR article.