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How to Foster a Culture of Innovation and Creativity in Your Team

Lead from Within

Innovation and creativity are important drivers of success for any business or organization. Here are some steps you can take to foster a culture of innovation and creativity within your team: Encourage open-mindedness and divergent thinking: Encourage your team to think outside the box and consider multiple perspectives.

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Does The Age Of A Board Affect Company Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

Innovation involves trying out new things, making improvements, and seeing what works in the market. This can make it tough for company leaders to push for innovation. The study found that if that was the case, firms seem to be “more” innovative than normal. “Subordinate managers run the company day to day.

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The Power Of Non-Financial Incentives

The Horizons Tracker

Despite this growing acceptance however, it’s still something that few of us manage to obtain in our working lives, so all additional evidence is welcomed, and the latest comes via a recent study from Columbia Business School, which reminds us that an emotional connection to our work is often key to high levels of motivation.

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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2019

Leading Blog

The Innovator's Book : Rules for Rebels, Mavericks and Innovators (Concise Advice) by Dr Max Mckeown. Both enlightening and entertaining, Dr Max Mckeown delivers concise advice on how to move from original insights to new ideas, and from new ideas to valuable real-world innovation. Baumeister.

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Under New Management

Leading Blog

It is hard to let go of the thinking behind some of the management tools we still use today. David Burkus reports on a number of seemingly radical management ideas in Under New Management. As an artifact of the industrial age when managers needed to ensure that all shifts were covered, strict vacation policies were a necessity.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

His new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , takes you through his research and best practices to show how to experiment and test before acting. Both revolutions were about the potential of new experimentation tools, processes, and cultures and what companies should do to unlock their power.

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Implementing the Seven Principles for Intentional Work Culture Change

Mike Cardus

Provide platforms for sharing feedback and innovations. Encourage managers at all levels to facilitate change, not just dictate it. Misalignment between the perceptions of management and employees. Align incentives and rewards with desired work-cultural changes. A flow of new ideas from various levels of the organization.