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Workplace Culture: How to Leverage Innovation No AI Bot Can Replace

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The Power of Workplace Culture in an AI Universe: A virtual conversation about Empathy and Innovation Note: This article on Workplace Culture is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of our book, Courageous Culture: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. If you’re not sure, you’re not alone.

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Does The Age Of A Board Affect Company Innovation?

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To come up with new ideas, companies need to think about the future and be willing to take some risks. Innovation involves trying out new things, making improvements, and seeing what works in the market. This can make it tough for company leaders to push for innovation. They have enough stake in the future of the company.

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Inclusive Managers Are Good For Company Share Prices

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Investment in diversity and inclusion can often be dismissed as something that’s a nice to have but which doesn’t really positively influence the profitability of a company. Research from Columbia Business School decries that notion, and indeed finds that investing in inclusiveness boosts the stock price of companies that do so.

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How Innovation Boosts Profitability

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The impact of innovation to improve the profitability of companies is something that has always been assumed, but nonetheless, it’s nice to have some tangible evidence to show it’s the case. They found that the most innovative firms achieved 1.95% higher growth in profitability each year than their less innovative peers.

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The Vital Secondary Market For Innovation

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Despite concerns that the pace of innovation has been slowing in recent decades, 2020 saw over 1,000 patents registered per day in the United States alone. Most of the research on innovation examines how something new gets produced, not how the idea itself moves about. The secondary market for innovation.

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What Impact Does Social Media Activity Have On Firms Share Price?

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Bar the occasional incident where the social media activity of companies blows up into a furor of negative publicity, it’s perhaps fair to say that most tweets and Facebook posts fly under the radar. The researchers used real-time data to assess the impact of social media activity on a firm’s stock price. Moving the needle.

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Executives Tip More When Their Companies Do Well

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Research from Binghamton University shows that this extends to tipping, with executives more likely to tip more when their company’s shares do well. “Employee spending is a big factor that governments consider when trying to attract companies into their area, as it can stimulate the local economy,” the researcher explains.

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