article thumbnail

Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

In our second article, Organizational Design: Clearing the Runway for Collaboration and Breakthrough Thinking, we outlined the shared governance strategy for decision-making and management. A shared governance strategy is the first step to making room for strong, supportive relationships among team members. Management Study Guide.

Culture 88
article thumbnail

The Thin Line Between Innovation and Insanity

Qmarkets

Dan Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for its discovery. Four years later, in 1954, the British Doctors Study, a study of some 40,000 doctors over 20 years, confirmed the suggestion, based on which the government issued advice that smoking and lung cancer rates were related. But the initial response was ridicule.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Thin Line Between Innovation and Insanity

Qmarkets

Dan Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for its discovery. Four years later, in 1954, the British Doctors Study, a study of some 40,000 doctors over 20 years, confirmed the suggestion, based on which the government issued advice that smoking and lung cancer rates were related. But the initial response was ridicule.

article thumbnail

Innovation in the Era of COVID-19

Innovation Excellence

In terms of “stopping in a place where you know what will come next,” this approach to avoid writer’s block in a novel can also be helpful for an innovator leading a brainstorming session which, inevitably, has to end at some point and resume later. John Reader, Cities (London: William Heinemann Random House, 2004).