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Guest Post: Talk is Cheap!

Lead on Purpose

Over 150 companies, including Durkee, Cremora, San Giorgio, Ronzoni, and McCormick, now use the entire line of Flapper products, and Weatherchem continues to lead the industry in offering the widest, most innovative array of closure products. Filed under: Integrity , Leadership , Purpose , Team Building , Trust Tagged: | Albert J.

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Everyone Suffers from Imposter Syndrome — Here’s How to Handle It

Harvard Business Review

A first tip is something that Portman highlights in her Harvard address, which I’ve found quite helpful: Recognize the benefits of being a novice. The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has created a crowdsourcing platform called InnoCentive , through which outside innovators are paid to solve vexing problems the company faces.

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S.

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2014 Will Be the Year of the Business Remix

Harvard Business Review

But what they see ahead is only the tip of the iceberg. By one insider’s account, recent mergers among big pharmaceutical firms led to R&D cutbacks and reduced productivity. Interest in “innovation,” on the other hand, has risen more strongly and continues unabated. 2014 will be the year of the “business remix.”

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The New Kind of Worker Every Business Needs

Harvard Business Review

Most of us think of biotech as the province of multinational pharmaceutical corporations and well-funded ventures, but the founders of BioCurious believe (as they say in their mission statement) "that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone." But don''t let that loss of control frighten you.

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Offices Can Be Bastions of Civility in an Uncivil Time

Harvard Business Review

A recent survey on easing racial tensions at work by the Center for Talent Innovation found that “The workplace is one of few settings where we commonly interact across racial and ethnic lines.” Forni, the Center gives every new employee a laminated card with 10 tips on maintaining civil discourse and behavior at work.

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Compliance Alone Won’t Make Your Company Safe

Harvard Business Review

At this point – the tipping point — companies would hugely benefit if people speak up and use this information to correct the bad decisions they made. In a similar vein, the Chinese telecom giant Huawei is known to encourage the idea that failures can be made public to promote an open mind set of creativity and innovation.