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Is Employee Engagement Just a Reflection of Personality?

Harvard Business Review

Many innovators also have problems with authority and a predisposition to challenge the status quo. To some extent, all innovation is the result of people who are unhappy with the status quo — who seek ways to change it. To illustrate this point, imagine that a friend tells you that she hates her job.

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Morning Advantage: An Ivory Tower. or a Gilded Cage?

Harvard Business Review

In turn, there’s less incentive to perform cross-disciplinary research, which, traditionally, has served as a catalyst for innovation. Of course, the private sector is fraught with innovation problems too. Tchaikovsky on Worth Ethic Vs. Inspiration (Brain Pickings). Instead, science is stuck in the status quo.

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