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How Creative Are We When Working Virtually?

The Horizons Tracker

While the general consensus is that employees liked it and were reasonably productive, there are concerns about its impact on things like creativity and innovation. Affecting creativity. The results showed that in-person teams were up to 20% more creative than their virtual peers. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Even more alarming, almost every new business it launched failed: e-books, mobile phones, search engines, music; it was one dramatic dud after another. The turnaround he engineered was nothing short of remarkable. Doesn’t micromanaging and process smother creativity? Not only was the U.S. For Microsoft, the future looked bleak.

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Do Morals Affect Our Creativity?

The Horizons Tracker

Moral behavior is typically something cherished in the workplace, but there have been concerns that creativity thrives better when we’re happy to bend the rules a bit. Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that this doesn’t have to be the case, and that morality can in fact spark creativity too.

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Lead, Don’t Manage, Knowledge Workers

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from James Hlavacek: To improve innovation and growth, knowledge workers must be led, not managed. Too many policies born of bureaucracy are an enemy to creativity, so the more unnecessary distractions a company can remove from its employees, the freer they will be to contribute more creative ways.

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How Does Social Media Affect Our Creativity?

The Horizons Tracker

A recent study from INSEAD suggests that innovative uses of social media are strongly correlated with creativity in our professional lives. The researchers quizzed a team of engineers from a multinational IT company, all of whom used a combination of internal social networks, such as Yammer, and external ones, such as LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

Back then, the vast majority of Akamai’s 100 engineering staff had been recruited directly from MIT and other top universities. Fortunately, Akamai’s VP of Human Resources, Steve Heinrich, recognized what was happening and brought in Chuck McVinney, a management consultant with expertise in teamwork and leadership training.

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From Misunderstanding to Mastery: Four Dimensions to Transform Your Cross Cultural Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

We’ve had many leaders, managers and clients around the world approach us with different cross cultural leadership challenges including: “In my culture, we need sound and music to do our best, but my office is silent as a graveyard. That attitude limits your creativity and automatically puts you in opposition to your team.