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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. But those are two separate functions that require different staffing, relationships, and resources.

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Workforce Analytics Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

Harvard Business Review

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." Turning humans into numbers isn't what analytics is about; at least not good analytics. How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times. A man who is.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Make you more innovative. Your relationships are also the best way to change with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed. Uzzi and another colleague, Jarrett Spiro, also discovered that this pattern held across sectors as disparate as the Broadway mu­sical industry and biotechnology.

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