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Make These 3 Cultural Shifts To Reignite Change In Your Organization

Digital Tonto

When I first arrived there in 2002, I was struck by the apathy. There was so little hope that anything could ever change that few saw any sense in even trying. The truth is that change that is imposed never sticks, because it asks those who must affect change to betray themselves. CLICK TO READ MORE.

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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

At the same time, there is no shortage of stories of people, teams and companies succeeding under tremendous time pressure to come up with game-changing ideas to solve a problem, produce a piece of art or breakthrough new product. And the results were clear: time pressure results in people being less creatively productive.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

This is the list of sections and book summaries: Alltime Classics How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie – 1936 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill – 1937 The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale – 1952 The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson – 1981 In Search of Excellence (..)

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Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them

IdeaScale

In 2002, Circuit City looked at the retail landscape, saw success in its future, and decided CarMax needed to be its own company. The mistake in innovation was to assume that minor cosmetic changes and rougher play were the only things sports fans wanted. Seeing the writing on the wall, Compaq sold itself to Hewlett Packard in 2002.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

Magretta, 2002). WHO – Every business model serves a certain customer group (Chesbrough and Rosenbloom 2002; Hamel 2000). Magretta 2002). A business model innovation is defined as the conscious change of at least two dimensions of the introduced “Magic Triangle”. Industrial & Corporate Change, 11(3), 529-555.

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Self-Serving bias: Why you think nothing is your fault

Idea to Value

Interestingly, being in a group often changes the impact of the self-serving bias. What is a concern is that since the 1960s, meta-analyses have shown that people in 2002 believe their locus of control is decreasing and becoming more external.

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Does Merging Two Struggling Firms Create Value?

Michael Roberto

Neiman, in 2002, filed for bankruptcy , but has emerged in a better position, with less debt. Will the merger integration effort make them more inwardly focused, when they should be paying ever-closer attention to changing consumers? How much distraction will an integration effort create?

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