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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

This means that even though an innovative idea is presented to us, we might not fully appreciate its value or understand how it can benefit our organization. How To Avoid Being Surprised By Your Innovation Blind Spot First and foremost, avoid cognitive biases by opening up your mind to new ideas and concepts.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

The books range from old classics like How to Win Friends and Influence People, right up to modern bestsellers like Start with Why and Atomic Habits. With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. We’ll also provide a series of practical tips and examples that can help address the changes, embrace new opportunities, and navigate these challenging times.

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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

An American Geophysicist, Cox and his colleagues were instrumental in developing a way to measure the changes in the Earth’s magnetic alignment and the geomagnetic polarity time scale. While now openly gay and married to his long-time partner, Thiel was furious at being outed in a 2007 article by Gawker media.

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How to Take Meaning from a Black Swan Event

The Inovo Group

In less than a month our world has changed dramatically. Normally, Inovo’s subscribers turn to us to understand strategic innovation – how to create growth and manage uncertainty. There is likely to be a lasting long-term impact on how the world works. Such a change of this magnitude couldn’t have been predicted.

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The Importance of Prioritizing Employee Well-Being and Psychological Safety

Business and Tech

My turning point came in 2007, when I collapsed from exhaustion and broke my cheekbone. I learned everything I could about the connection between well-being and productivity, and I made a lot of changes to my life based on what I found out. The way that companies have to treat employees has rapidly changed over the last two years.

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How to spot the next big thing

hackerearth

In 2007, a Wall Street Journal article titled “ Together We Innovate ” stressed the importance of working together in an organization to encourage new ideas irrespective of hierarchy and rank. This will help it discover hidden opportunities and be proactive rather than reacting to changes occurring in the external environment.

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