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How Tony’s Chocolonely Created a Purpose-Driven (and Profitable) Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

In the cocoa industry, for example, the average farmer cultivates between three and five hectares to earn less than two dollars a day. In this article, the authors look at the experience of Tony’s Chocolonely, a Dutch chocolate brand founded in 2005, which set itself a mission to sell 100% slavery-free chocolate.

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How can you put innovation to work? Take these examples

Exago

The ‘Oslo Manual: Guidelines for Collecting and Interpreting Innovation Data’ (3rd Edition, 2005) defines four. Take these examples appeared first on www.exago.com. We can say it’s about R&D and S&T, but it’s also radical, disruptive, incremental and social innovation, as well as innovation competencies.

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Planning fallacy: Why we are so bad at predicting how long something will take

Idea to Value

But did you know that it is one of the best examples of a project going over time and budget? Other research from 2005 has shown that groups are also susceptible to underestimating how long they will take to complete a task. The Sydney Opera house is one of the most iconic buildings in the world.

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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

Diamonds are formed under pressure There are numerous examples of companies who allowed staff to take time to work on their own innovations and creative ideas. There are also countless examples of people who say they work best under pressure, using the deadlines as a motivation to get their best work done.

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Calling All Founders: To Build A Platform for All Humans

helloFUTURE

Take podcasting, for example: I first heard of podcasting back in 2005 from Wired magazine (which I used to read religiously). Many people bemoan that we have to keep moving from platform to platform, as they evolve from person-to-person communications tools to megaphones for big media.

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The creative personality: Which of the Big 5 Personality Traits is associated with creativity?

Idea to Value

The worst example of this is probably the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment, which has been debunked by the scientific community ( 1996 , 1997 , 2005 ). Nonetheless, there is one system of personality testing which is widely accepted by the psychology science community.

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The most important words Bill Gates wrote in the Goalkeepers report?

Christensen Institute

Gates notes that, as millions of people in low-income countries go hungry, the cumulative spend on food aid from 2005 to 2020 was $57 billion while just $9 billion was spent on agriculture research in the same time period. In my view, those words in the most recent Goalkeepers report, are the most important Gates wrote in the annual update.

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