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The Importance of Prioritizing Employee Well-Being and Psychological Safety

Business and Tech

Three business leaders discuss the importance of fostering a healthy company culture and creating a safe space for employees to feel supported in their mental health. Why is company culture so important for employee well-being? My turning point came in 2007, when I collapsed from exhaustion and broke my cheekbone.

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Cracking the complexity code

Paul Hobcraft

There was a good article within the McKinsey Quarterly published way back in 2007 entitled “Cracking the complexity code,” written by three authors Suzanne Heywood, Jessica Spungin, and David Turnbull. It still has a lot of relevancy in my mind today. We have choices of complexity.

System 227
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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

One of these is organizational culture. A culture that doesn't reward or recognize creative thinking can stifle innovation and make it difficult to see outside the established norms. Cultivate a culture of innovation that encourages all employees to think outside the box and develop new ideas.

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Leading Experts Share Challenges in Human Resources During the Pandemic and Trends in Employee Health and Wellness

Business and Tech

John Adcock : Onboarding new team members and fully immersing them into the culture of the organization continues to be a challenge of a hybrid workforce. So in the same way wellbeing boosts our immune system, culture serves as a company’s immune system, giving it the resilience to meet inevitable challenges.

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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

Some have been through the Great Depression, world wars, the Great Recession of 2007–09, and now, most recently, the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic downturn. The age of your product, service, culture, and even your employees is not the problem. The Test of Time. It is because they have deprioritized creativity!

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Eleven Reasons for the UK’s Poor Productivity

Destination Innovation

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) UK productivity has fallen to levels it held in 2007. It is the job of the leaders at all levels to set the strategy and vision, to inspire and motivate their teams and to create a culture of progress and innovation. Poor leadership. This plainly is not happening in many sectors.

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How Should Your Business Find the Next Big Thing?

IdeaScale

In pop culture, the story of innovation is sudden as a brilliant idea arrives in a flash of genius. Netflix’s streaming video model seems blindingly obvious now, but stop and consider the state of television in 2007. Disruptive or incremental innovation? Internet video” was amateurs on YouTube singing about candy.