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The Benefits of Losing a Star Employee (Temporarily)

Michael Roberto

John Chen and Pranav Garg examine these issues in a fascinating new paper titled, "Dancing with the stars: Benefits of a star employee’s temporary absence for organizational performance" - published in Strategic Management Journal. They examined how teams performed when a player was lost due to injury for a period of time.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

Why this typology: innovation management in organizations. Innovation Management focuses on creating and managing sustainable business (Crossan & Apaydin, 2010; Keeley, Walters, Pikkel, & Quinn, 2013). MIT Sloan Management Review, 48(2), 22–28. Journal of Management Studies, 47(6), 1154–1191.

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Crowdsourcing ideas: sexy ideas get implemented

Norbert Bol

When it comes to the finding that paying attention to other ideas during crowdsourcing is so important, this relates for me to an interesting TED talk from Matt Ridley in 2010 ( When Ideas Have Sex ), where he shows that we as humans are successful because of the mating of our ideas.