Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2024

There are many reasons why bosses set unrealistic goals. They may have heady aspirations and subscribe to the popular notion of “big, hairy, audacious goals.” Alternatively, they may be removed from day-to-day operations and not realize the logistical or process-related difficulties of achieving it. Or they may recognize that the goal is unrealistic but face pressure from higher up the food chain or important clients.

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Management 127

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 9, 2024

or “Why Mandating a Return to the Office Destroys Safety” GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In last week’s episode, we learned that psychological safety is more neuroscience than psychology and the huge role our nervous system plays in our experience of safety.

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System How To Learning Change 93

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2024

The online systems that make recommendations to us often rely on their digital footprint — our clicks, views, purchases, and other digital footprints — to infer our preferences. But this means that human biases are baked into the algorithms. To build algorithms that more effectively predict users’ true preferences and better enhance consumer well-being and social welfare, organizations need to employ ways to measure user preferences that take into account these biases.

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System How To 120

Yet2

JANUARY 9, 2024

The yet2 team is thankful for another great year supporting our clients across technology scouting and Open Innovation advising. Among the highlights across our clients and industries were alternative/sustainable material supplier searches, novel product formats, innovation tours, packaging, and more. Throughout the year we saw new trends in technology scouting that we’d like to share with you!

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Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2024

Raising a potentially emotional topic to your manager can be difficult — you don’t know how they will react or whether you will be judged or punished in some way. Based on the science of conflict resolution, dissent, upward communication, and the authors’ own research on one-on-one meetings, they share a clear process for raising these issues with your manager.

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How To Meeting Report Management 115

Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 9, 2024

Premise: In the past couple of days, I have come across two women, two doctors who have in their own ways shared the importance and impact that our thoughts have on our body. First, Meet Dr. Gladys McGarey. She is 103 years old and considered the mother of Holistic Medicine. In this captivating and powerful interview, she shares the secrets to a longer, healthier, happier life. – LOVE & LIFE, together.

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Meeting Leadership 52

ITONICS

JANUARY 9, 2024

In the fast-paced realm of innovation, efficiently managing innovation project portfolios is crucial for sustained success. Nurturing high-potential initiatives and quickly identifying and rectifying low-performing projects is essential.

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Project How To Innovation Management 36

Michael Roberto

JANUARY 9, 2024

[link] Holly Dykstra, Shibeal O'Flaherty, and Ashley Whillans have written a fascinating new Harvard Business School working paper titled, "The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through." They begin by noting that many behavioral scientists advocate the removal of friction as a mechanism for stimulating people to adopt a new behavior (or to change their existing behavior).

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Change Groups Course Study 52