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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. What new products and services will you create with it?

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To Cope with Labor Shortage, Raise Emotional Compensation

Michael Lee Stallard

Over the nearly 20 years that my colleagues and I have been studying and helping leaders, we’ve learned that boosting emotional compensation is based on meeting seven universal human needs to thrive at work: respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth, meaning, and progress. Photo by Leon on Unsplash.

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Hope Employees Will Return to the Office? Start Here.

Michael Lee Stallard

I believe that over time, employers are going to lean toward having people work in the office because it promotes collaboration and innovation. Having a cool or fun vibe around the office wouldn’t guarantee a cooperative and productive team. But is that what workers want? While nice, Tim knew those perks weren’t enough.

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In a Hybrid World, Every Worker Will Need to Feel Essential

Next Level Blog

Since just about all humans need to feel needed, I’d guess most people would answer no. Forty-one percent of them regularly feel lonely and 56 percent believe loneliness affects their productivity. I always wondered what it felt like to be deemed “non-essential.” Not good, I’d think.

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Preparing for Re-entry into the Physical Workplace: Lessons from NASA

Michael Lee Stallard

As humans, we’re hardwired to connect. Connection makes us smarter, happier, more productive, and more resilient to cope with stress. This could be especially important for employees who live alone and have primarily relied on interactions in the workplace to meet their need for social connection. I should’ve eased into it.”.

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This Strategic Pivot to Address COVID Will Help Your Business Thrive

Lead Change Blog

For instance, the manufacturing startup’s salespeople started to encounter difficulties selling their high-quality tech products. While the manufacturing startup was keen on innovation, it didn’t have a clear measure of ROI in place. Other companies encountered similar issues as well.

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Study Suggests Global North Still Appropriates Wealth From South

The Horizons Tracker

“In other words, all this productive capacity could be used to meet local human needs, but instead it goes to serve capital accumulation in the North,” the authors explain.