Mike Cardus

APRIL 5, 2020

You have developed a quick form or documented process to capture what is working to increase and what is not working to decrease while the work of your team(s) is getting done. As you check-in with your management, you are reflecting the priorities to them.

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Construction Public Relations Idea Generation Document 180

Mike Cardus

JULY 2, 2013

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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CO2

APRIL 8, 2013

While generating ideas comes easily for entrepreneurs, discerning which ideas to implement and which to discard does not usually come as easily. CO 2 Partners specializes in working with entrepreneurs and helping them organize, sort, select, and manage their ideas. Idea Generation Trap.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Research from the University of Illinois portrayed interruptions in a slightly more positive light, as when we’re interrupted, we also get to interact with the person doing the interrupting, which helps us to develop crucial social ties.

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Supply Chain Incubator Creativity Objective 119

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 2, 2023

Recent research from Bocconi University highlighted that we often develop the best ideas when we work with people we don’t know well, but then we develop those ideas most effectively with people we know well. This can help to emphasize the benefits of functional dissimilarity to the team.

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Lead from Within

JULY 4, 2023

Poor listening skills are one of the main causes of poor communication in leadership, and it can have negative impacts on teamwork, idea generation and trust. Most people believe they are good listeners, but the reality is that many of us struggle with effective listening.

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Skills Tips Teamwork Leadership 156

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2014

They say that the biggest barriers to innovation are manager’s attitude, operational structure and procedures, and lack of diversity. Seventy-five percent believe that organizations can do more to develop future leaders. Idea Generation Tool – Create a way for employees to have the ability to submit ideas.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that managers would strive to achieve a degree of cultural fit when they recruit. Indeed, a few years ago research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a poor cultural fit can cost somewhere between 50-60% of that employee’s annual salary.

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Management Excellence

MARCH 9, 2011

Your decisions define you as a leader and a manager, yet we spend very little time in our busy lives finding ways to improve our abilities in this area. In this 3rd Part of an on-going series, we tackle the issue of properly framing issues to improve idea generation and decision development.

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Management Idea Generation Succession How To 63

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Here are four techniques that will help open the lines of communication with team members, and across your organization, to encourage valuable idea generation and information sharing: 1. At best, this approach can be confusing, leaving your employee focused only on the positives and missing the areas to be developed altogether.

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Competitive Advantage CEO Open-book Idea Generation 120

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. Big organizations require a different set of management practices and approaches—a discipline focused on the strategies, systems and culture for taking their companies to the next level. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 236

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2013

Typically most managers do not realize there are different styles even though they divide 50/50 in the populations worldwide. You contribute by organizing the new projects and developing efficient systems that ensure the work or product is completed with precision and accuracy. Each is needed but often not identified or respected.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market. A cash sum was offered as an incentive. Retain a firm handle on your overheads.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 17, 2013

Yet, in spite of the fact that being forward-looking is the quality that most separates leaders from individual contributors, it’s something that too few fully appreciate, and too many devote almost no time to developing. Middle level managers often need to look three to five years into the future.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 27, 2014

Recently, I read an interesting article that started me thinking about the messages we send out to our children concerning what it is to be a manager. The Article, written by Hal Gregersen for Businessweek.com is entitled, “What Do Managers Do at Work? When asked, “What do Managers do at work?” Why is it important?

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Leadership Sample Idea Generation Diversity 75

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2012

I read an interesting article last week that started me thinking about the messages we send out to our children concerning what it is to be a manager. The Article, written by Hal Gregersen for Businessweek.com is entitled, “ What Do Managers Do at Work? . When asked, “ What do Managers do at work ?” Why is it important?

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Leadership Sample Idea Generation Diversity 76

Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

With knowledge workers , you can’t develop and maintain an exceptional, consistently high-performing team without focusing first on what drives the team’s behaviors and actions at the root level,” says Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO of Herrmann International. When managed well, cognitive diversity has been proven to pay off,” Herrmann-Nehdi says.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. Why these programs work.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

For ABC Corp, the initiative will focus mainly on the new product development process, especially the idea generation phase. The current steps for vetting ideas will gain new criteria for selecting ideas that will be developed. At an individual level, employees need to become comfortable sharing wild ideas.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Other successful companies build upon social interaction to develop innovative concepts leading to disruptive product and service developments. Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. In turn, these experts must be encouraged to drill down deep in their own specializations, develop plans and strategies, and share them with the rest of the organization. Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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Decentralization Idea Generation Content Document 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. What these stories and hacks offer are well-developed, highly-detailed, and battle-tested roadmaps for making that assumption a reality. You can read all of those here. But don't take it from me.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

When your team is tasked with generating ideas to solve a problem, suggesting a brainstorming session is a natural reaction. He codified the basic rules that many of us follow when getting people together to generate ideas: Toss out as many ideas as possible. Dr. Tony McCaffrey outlines a new way to generate ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Without realizing it, even well-managed businesses versed in modern management practices can generate an environment that is hostile to innovation. Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks.

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. Weak time-management disciplines. Most often, employees are left on their own to figure out how to manage their time in ways that will reduce stress and burnout.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

It would therefore make sense for organizations to increase diversity in teams that are focused on exploration or idea generation, and use more-homogeneous teams to curate and implement those ideas. For all the talk about the importance of creativity, the critical piece is really innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. He developed unique insight to solve an emerging need and then he drove transformational change to realize that vision.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

It helps you develop the ability to switch off reactive fight-or-flight responses and engage in a more thoughtful mode that’s crucial for making balanced decisions. To further corroborate our findings, we conducted a second experiment with a group of 24 senior innovation managers at a large Dutch research organization.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Importantly, after each study we asked a separate group of people to rate the creativity of the participants’ ideas. Across the majority of our studies we found that ideas generated while persisting were, on average, rated to be more creative than ideas generated initially.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Having regularly scheduled talks with every employee at work can help build rapport with them and make them more likely to open up to their managers and HR. These conversations can also allow management to become better at picking up on cues when something is wrong, guiding them to ask the right questions every time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

Our finding about scarcity, however, gets even gets more interesting when its implication is spelled out: that innovation managers will more often create businesses, services, or products that are successful in the marketplace when they intentionally impose constraints during the development process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In my work with employers (usually advising on work-family balance for fathers), I sense that many managers believe in giving more employees this kind of flexibility — allowing them to fashion the particular arrangements that work for them while minimizing disruption of the workplace. Human resources Managing people Work life balance'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

When I ask participants in my executive programs what gets in the way of growth in their companies, the list goes on and on: lack of incentives, power of the existing business, management desire for near-term success, too many silos, fear of failure, "it's no one's job," and so on. So what do companies like Apple and P&G really do?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Genetic studies suggest that genes determine only 10% of the variability in creative potential, so there is a lot of room for development. ” 4) Help employees develop expertise. Here are the main factors to consider when attempting to coach creativity: You and Your Team. Get better at helping your employees stretch and grow.

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