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Is What’s Good For General Electric Good For America?

Digital Tonto

He led a new era of “Welchism,” in which CEO’s laid off employees, offshored factories and engaged in “financial engineering,” to goose profits. million jobs since 2010, productivity is up and unemployment is at record lows. That all began to change when Jack Welch took over in 1981. The results are clear.

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

Idea to Value

A 2013 paper suggests that children engage more in imaginative play because it helps them develop the learning skills of causal-reasoning. However, another 2016 study shows it is not clear if simply engaging in pretend play leads to higher creativity as an adult. Teenagers did show higher creativity on the social challenge though.

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Origin Story: How IdeaScale Grew from a Simple Idea to a Leading Idea Management Company

IdeaScale

IdeaScale provides this space with a cloud idea management platform that has helped businesses and customers connect in a way that is truly engaging. million users, IdeaScale’s software lets organizations involve customers and the general public to engage with leaders. With more than 25,00 customers and 4.5

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Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset

Idea to Value

Other studies have even shown that people with a growth mindset’s brains become more active when looking at an error they made, whereas with a fixed mindset there is almost no engagement. Dweck’s research also seems to suggest that this mindset is partially down to how someone is raised, and especially, how they are praised.

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The availability bias: Why we overestimate the likelihood of scary but unlikely events

Idea to Value

Indeed, a 2010 survey conducted in the USA found that shark attacks were one of the top 6 most feared ways to die. Fear, tragedy and anger are especially likely to have people engaged and watching. Most people would be much more afraid of a shark.

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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

I started posting my thoughts on innovation in August 2010. The sharing of knowledge and insights provided for others to gain makes this dedicated focus worthwhile and keeps me ticking along in business advisory, coaching and mentoring around innovation when asked for advice or engaged in work on a client’s behalf.

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Three Ways Government Agencies Can Do More With Less —Right Now

IdeaScale

3) Employee empowerment and crowdsourcing: According to a 2010 report by the National Performance Management Advisory Commission, “to make real improvements, organizational culture must also be addressed.” CDER achieved an 80% participation rate from their engaged employees and gathered hundreds of ideas that improved internal CDER functions.