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

Innovation Excellence

How do you define the culture of your workplace? A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. Workplace culture can change rapidly with world events, and play an important role in how employees respond to and operate in times of crisis.

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Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

Innovation ca feel a lot like that — your competition is a big tough impossible-to-beat player like Superman. Now is the time to impact 2015. Projects are what change culture. In fact, Nothing changes innovation culture except real world innovation projects. It’s the Only Kryptonite.

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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. Because of McDonald’s size and legacy the media covered this story heavily in 2015.

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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. In October 2015, Lee Jeans launched a campaign across 32 cities in China to promote a range of heat-retaining denim. Culture Flaunting – Use Internal Culture to Create External Differentiation.

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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. In October 2015, Lee Jeans launched a campaign across 32 cities in China to promote a range of heat-retaining denim. Culture Flaunting – Use Internal Culture to Create External Differentiation.

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Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

It reflects a mix of culture, motivation, and misunderstanding that can weigh down innovation processes like a stone. If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Still, other companies with a friendly competition culture might respond better to “gamification” strategies.

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Make Digital Disruption Your Biggest Competitive Advantage

Daniel Burrus

By digitally disrupting ourselves instead of passively, reactively waiting for it to happen, we can make disruption our biggest competitive advantage — leading the way for personal, business and industrial innovation instead of trying to keep up with the pack in some middling effort to survive. ®2015 Burrus Research, Inc.