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The Importance of Prioritizing Employee Well-Being and Psychological Safety

Business and Tech

It’s important because we now know an enormous amount about how stress and burnout affect us, both at home and at work. The science is clear that when we prioritize our well-being, we’re more creative, productive, and resilient, and we make better decisions. Well-being isn’t just a perk, it’s a competitive advantage.

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Eleven Reasons for the UK’s Poor Productivity

Destination Innovation

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) UK productivity has fallen to levels it held in 2007. This is the key reason why wages, growth and competitive performance are all held back. Ironically we may need labour shortages and higher wages to provide incentives to find smarter and more productive ways to do things.

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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

We all have blind spots in different areas of our lives. We all have areas where we are unaware, uninformed, prejudiced, or unappreciative of certain things, and this makes it difficult to recognize an innovation. Innovations are hard to recognize when they are in our blind spots because we are not actively looking for them.

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

Business and Tech

Chris McLaughlin: At LumApps, we like to talk about engagement, enablement, and empowerment — the three pillars in HR that help with considerable challenges such as employee development and retention. Arianna Huffington: We now know an enormous amount about how stress and burnout affect us, both at home and at work.

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Shifting innovation from a vague buzzword to a mechanism of progress

Christensen Institute

In Improve or Transform , our “how-to” guide for health care executives seeking to effectively change their business models, we help leaders identify the business model that is right for them. Here, Dunn adds perspective to the roadmap we provide and calls out three steps leaders can take to seed future success.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | As we seem to heading towards economic downturn, leaders find themselves trying to reduce costs and foster growth at the same time. We have seen this happening during the last economic crisis, when merely 10% of companies performed better at the end of the crisis than they did before it.

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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

One problem we witness too often in society is the treatment of creativity and business innovation as mutually exclusive occurrences. One problem we witness too often in society is the treatment of creativity and business innovation as mutually exclusive occurrences. Human beings are meant to be creative. The Test of Time.