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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Phrases like ‘Don’t rock the boat’ or ‘It’s not in the budget’ often serve to halt innovation and maintain the status quo. References Adams, J.

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Weekly Round-Up: On Leaders, Change Management, & Collaborative Workplaces

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Kets de Vries, Harvard Business Review I had a CEO in one of my leadership coaching seminars recently who seemed to be quite bitter about life. You need a certain amount of ego as a leader to achieve, to innovate. It needs to be delicately balanced.

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The Business of Innovation – The Execution Plan | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

Innovative companies realize remarkable marketplace rewards. The Business of Innovation is a five part series created by CNBC in association with IBM. The Business of Innovation is a five part series created by CNBC in association with IBM. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 6 of 7

Strategy Driven

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

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StrategyDriven Enterprises Launches an Online Business Performance Assessment Forum

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC announced the launch of an online business performance assessment forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help executives and managers better assess the performance of their business operations. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7

Strategy Driven

Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author.