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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

Human beings are meant to be creative. One problem we witness too often in society is the treatment of creativity and business innovation as mutually exclusive occurrences. Most notably, older organizations are the ones that place creativity in one column and positive disruptions via innovation in another. The Test of Time.

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The Importance of Prioritizing Employee Well-Being and Psychological Safety

Business and Tech

Three business leaders discuss the importance of fostering a healthy company culture and creating a safe space for employees to feel supported in their mental health. Why is company culture so important for employee well-being? Well-being isn’t just a perk, it’s a competitive advantage.

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Cracking the complexity code

Paul Hobcraft

There was a good article within the McKinsey Quarterly published way back in 2007 entitled “Cracking the complexity code,” written by three authors Suzanne Heywood, Jessica Spungin, and David Turnbull. This is the area of strategic impact as these can limit competitive advantaged from the level of innovation intensity chosen as an example.

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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

One of these is organizational culture. A culture that doesn't reward or recognize creative thinking can stifle innovation and make it difficult to see outside the established norms. Cultivate a culture of innovation that encourages all employees to think outside the box and develop new ideas.

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Leading Experts Share Challenges in Human Resources During the Pandemic and Trends in Employee Health and Wellness

Business and Tech

John Adcock : Onboarding new team members and fully immersing them into the culture of the organization continues to be a challenge of a hybrid workforce. The science is clear that when we prioritize our wellbeing, we’re more creative, productive, and resilient, and we make better decisions.

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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

Crowdsourcing allows businesses to target internal and external participants to share their ideas and suggestions via questionnaires, competitions, promotions, and other methods. Breakthrough innovation is rare but from Dyson we can learn that a culture of innovation in essential. Dyson engineers are never satisfied.

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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

What is needed is a new strategic framework that serves both the current, increasingly competitive, situation as well as providing a strategic path through an uncertain future. People stepped up and new talent that ‘got’ the culture and vision were recruited. The story of a company called Sweetgreen points the way.