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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

This is the case because innovation occurs when an individual sees a potential connection between two previously unrelated ideas e.g. shoes + wheels = roller skates. A diminished marketplace of ideas reduces the likelihood the innovative connections will be made to birth new products, processes and businesses. percent.

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Social Capital Is as Important as Financial Capital in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Research: Why Best Practices Don’t Translate Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. Managing Across Cultures. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures. employees therefore welcomed the opportunity to take more chances and saw failure as promoting learning and innovation. It made sense. Leaders from the U.S.

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Develop Deep Knowledge in Your Organization — and Keep It

Harvard Business Review

The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them.