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What to Do When Your Team Blames You

Harvard Business Review

Being accused by your team of failing them in some way induces a threat state in your brain, impairing your ability to think clearly and triggering a variety of cognitive distortions and defensive behaviors. The authors offer several strategies to help you work through the experience while keeping important relationships intact.

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Where can you get Fresh Ideas?

Destination Innovation

Here are some places and methods to help you find them: Read Widely : Books, magazines, and online articles are great sources of inspiration. Different perspectives can trigger new ideas. Reflecting on your experiences can help you identify patterns and potential innovations. Use an external facilitator if possible.

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The Simple Shapes of Customer Stories

Leanstack

Understanding the basic shapes of your customer stories can help you better understand your customers and uncover new opportunities for innovation (problems worth solving). The Status Quo Story Our customer starts at some basal happiness level until they encounter a jtbd trigger, for example, hunger pangs. But the players have changed.

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The fear of business contagion requires different innovation response

Paul Hobcraft

This first post discusses what is changing, and there is a growing argument in what I am seeing that we are facing one of those contagion periods where one set of conditions is triggering another, followed by another. All of these conditions are the triggers for wholesale change. I hope it helps. You simply adapt or die.

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Drive Better Decision-Making with Data Storytelling

Data visualization - Visualizations help to effectively tell a data-driven story. Users will be more engaged, their emotions triggered, and data-driven decision-making will be enhanced. Visualizations and insights are supported by a narrative that helps to expedite the decision-making process.

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Humans are social animals, and being excluded stresses us out

Idea to Value

As we just saw, the stress response just from the risk or thought of social exclusion can trigger the same stress response as physical pain. One test even showed that moderate cortisol level increases helped improve creativity, but this creative performance dropped to negative again when stress triggered negative emotions.

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Learn Why Every Household Needs an Air Purifier

Business and Tech

Air purifiers refresh stale air, reducing the chances of health issues caused by indoor pollutants, which can trigger respiratory infections, neurological problems, and aggravate asthma symptoms. We design our air purifiers to help combat these issues. Air purifiers can also help those with allergies and with asthma.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.