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Bad news does not Travel up the Hierarchy

Destination Innovation

Issues with the O-Rings were known to the engineers who worked on the boosters. We will be safe if we are silent. In short, bad news does not travel up the hierarchy. Share : The post Bad news does not Travel up the Hierarchy appeared first on Destination Innovation. People were afraid to speak-up. On Amazon.com.

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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

You do get tired of hearing “we are looking to become a value-creating solution provider”, yet the willingness to really create collaborative networks is still stuck in the “us and them” mentality. We need to engage differently. We need to engage differently.

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Virgin just invested in new supersonic jets which travel faster than Concorde

Idea to Value

Virgin, as reported in the Guardian newspaper , has signed a deal to buy 10 of the planes from Boom founder Blake Scholl, who is working on a prototype supersonic plane from its production facility in Colorado. “We are talking about the first supersonic jet people can afford to fly,” Scholl said. It will travel 2.6

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How Business Travel Spurs Innovation

Michael Roberto

For instance, colleagues who speak different languages and possess unique cultural norms around meeting styles would benefit from in-person meetings, whereas people who speak the same language and operate meetings similarly won’t realize the same benefit. hours or less. Future research will help us answer that question.

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The ladder of “No”

Idea to Value

And often, it is not clear who is allowed to allocate these resources. It is not clear who can give a “Yes” to the employee. Suppose we have an employee who has an idea for an innovation, and their chain of command in the company looks like this: Employee ? Team Lead ?

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What Will the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Be on Digital Transformation?

IdeaScale

Overview: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is still being felt in digital transformation, yet already we’ve seen changes, including expanded rollouts of remote working systems, more targeted deployment of IT resources, a more robust privacy and cybersecurity response, and more acceptance of mobile and web apps as productivity tools.

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Time Travel Audit: Find Success Now and in the Future

Daniel Burrus

You don’t need a DeLorean for time travel. For example, you can visit remote parts of the Amazon River and meet people who live just as they did a thousand years ago, using blow guns and spears as their current technology. This same kind of time travel also occurs in business. Fortunately, you can also travel to the future.

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