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Innovation in action: Value prior learning, no matter where that learning happens

Christensen Institute

This piece is authored by Becky Klein-Collins, VP of research and impact at the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) , an organization that’s been a leader in advocating for Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) for nearly 50 years. Click here to learn more about CAEL and its mission. Why shouldn’t that credit count?

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Employee engagement and innovation

hackerearth

Researchers across the world agree that engaged employees drive the culture of true innovation in successful companies. What is employee engagement? Even leaders who do value their employees frequently mistake employee satisfaction for employee engagement. Gallup employee engagement survey results. Source: Kronos.

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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

Employees become mere executors of orders, leading to a lack of engagement and motivation. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012. By embracing failure and learning from it, they managed to create a user experience that resonated with their audience.

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Schools should focus on progress, not on finding problems

Christensen Institute

Some want students to not only learn how to solve problems but also how to find them. It relies on ensuring that students develop agency—not learned helplessness—by seeking to make progress in the mold of an American ideal. Daniel Pink wrote about the phenomenon in his 2012 book To Sell Is Human.

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My prepared remarks for the Technology and Anticorruption panel at the 2nd Summit for Democracy

Christensen Institute

Or why do they engage in it? In asking this question, there is a temptation to brush it aside and say things like, they are bad people and corruption must be stopped at all costs; or, we don’t care why people engage in it , it is simply wrong. And so, here we learn that corruption evolves in societies in a fairly predictable manner.

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

Posted on November 9, 2012. Posted on July 30, 2012. Learning to absorb new knowledge for innovation. The period of 2012 to 2014 was a far from quiet time. Seeking a new middle management’s innovation perspective. Posted on August 20, 2013. Reducing confusion, promoting diffusion of new knowledge in innovation.

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Case Studies: Learning from Failure, or Dying from it

Qmarkets

What can we learn from their innovation failures? caption id="attachment_52603" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Failure in innovation is expected, and is a good thing, provided you learn from your mistakes. On February 1, 2012, JCPenney launched a new pricing method. Toys Were Us. How to Fail the Right Way.