Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Recognizing Toxic Work Environments To initiate the journey towards building a positive work culture, it’s imperative to recognize the current state of your work environment. Signs of a Toxic Work Culture Toxic work cultures can manifest in various ways, and being aware of the signs is crucial for any manager or leader.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

Culture 100

Culture Underperforming Technical Team Agile Leadership 100

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 6, 2024

Change is happening so quickly and from so many different directions and dimensions that companies cannot create strategy without also preparing for and being ready to change. Companies cannot build static strategies that stretch over 3 or 5 years. Every company has a culture.

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Culture Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence Agile 157

Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Identifying Toxic Workplace Culture Recognizing a toxic workplace culture is the first step in transforming an unhealthy work environment into a thriving one. Common Factors Contributing to Toxicity Toxic workplace cultures typically don’t emerge overnight.

Culture 100

Culture Underperforming Technical Team Policies Collaboration 100

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But what struck me about their work is that they also focus on culture and change management. In a time when everyone is focused on analytics, on artificial intelligence, on strategy and on mission, focusing on change and culture is almost counterintuitive, but it's probably what we should be focusing on. Change is difficult.

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Strategy Strategy Change Artificial Inteligence 167

Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

Companies that create and nurture a culture of care have more engaged employees and reduced turnover. That’s according to Limeade, an immersive employee well-being company that creates healthy employee experiences. “A When companies care for their employees, they support them in a variety of ways,” says Crast.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 21, 2018

But the second most commonly cited barrier was cultural issues. When we looked at that response, we were wondering how a company culture might be inhospitable to innovation and we looked at some of our most commonly reported customer reported obstacles for an answer. No Support from Senior Management for New Ideas.

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Culture Company Report Leadership 154

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2024

Some well-meaning executive somewhere described the company culture as feeling like a family. In fact, it probably didn’t start as a metaphor (“we are a family”); it probably started as a simile (“we are like a family”). That a high-powered CEO would feel […]

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

Amid the competitive war for talent and labor shortages, now is the time for employers to step up and ensure their culture is one that focuses on employees’ experience in the world of work. What precisely do employers need to ensure their culture puts employees first and stops them from quitting? Ensuring inclusivity.

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Culture How To Survey Engagement 246

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Public company boards are typically focused on oversight, supporting the management team while keeping a respectful distance from day-to-day operations. In contrast, boards of companies owned by private equity tend to be much more hands-on.

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Company Learning Culture Engagement 111

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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Sopheon

APRIL 23, 2024

In bringing together a company’s culture, ways of working, people and products, companies can operationalize innovation and bring every team member together under an overarching goal. With the help of GenAI, companies will support an InnovationOps ideology more seamlessly and innovate at scale more easily.

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Generative AI Trends Innovation Management Management 85

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2023

Retaliation — in all its forms — not only harms current team members, but a culture that tolerates retaliation results in harm to the mission and the organization’s ability to deliver to its customers and stakeholders.

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Culture Company Innovation Leadership 102

Sopheon

APRIL 9, 2024

By bringing together culture, ways of working, people and products, companies can operationalize innovation and bring every team member together under an overarching goal. InnovationOps is the way of the future for any organization intent on efficient, repeatable and scalable innovation.

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Management Culture Company Innovation 106

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

While leaders are often focused on how to transform their organizations — and, specifically, their cultures — an equally difficult challenge is keeping a culture steady. As companies go through big changes, they need to retain the best elements of their shared assumptions, values, and common behaviors.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Where will Innovation Management Software go? This morning I decided to have a chat on ChatGPT on the future of Innovation Management Software, I asked a number of questions in a short series and can well-relate to the answers provided incredibly quickly. chat.openai.com/chat Where will Innovation Management Software go?

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Software Innovation Management Management Artificial Inteligence 182

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Embracing Virtual Team Management In today’s digital age, mastering virtual team management is not just a benefit—it’s a necessity. The importance of effective management in such a setup cannot be overstated, as it directly influences team cohesion, productivity, and overall performance.

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Collaboration Management Tools Team Building 100

Idea to Value

JANUARY 4, 2022

Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? I once had a manager who I was working with on a money-raising program. However, my manager instructed me to continue showing predictions that it was perfectly possible that we would meet the targets, something I argued with him about often.

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Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture Leadership 216

Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

COVID-19 has revolutionized the way most people live and work, leading to a stark shift in how companies perceive and support employee mental health. At the same time, when asked what benefits their employers would get out of offering mental health support and services, 62% of managers and employees said they would be more productive.

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Report Company Survey Leadership 241

Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Today, Apple is so associated with Steve Jobs and the Macintosh that it seems incredible that he was fired from the company, in large part due to tensions that resulted from its development. Lou Gerstner’s turnaround of IBM was so complete it seems crazy that most people assumed the company would be broken up and sold for parts.

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Culture Change Artificial Inteligence Learning 175

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2023

GE is well known as an “academy company” — a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries.

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Company Survey Training Culture 136

Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 31, 2020

While there, as a student job he managed a pizza grill. A friend had dared Hsieh to start a company with the name Venture Frogs so that is what he did. The company gained a reputation for extraordinary customer service. Hsieh made at least $200 million from the sale but stayed on as CEO to lead the company.

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Culture Innovation Training Meeting 152

Leapfrogging

MARCH 19, 2024

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management My journey into the realm of innovation management began as I witnessed many clients wrestling with the increasing complexity of developing new products and services. The Rise of AI in Innovation Management What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

First and foremost, you need to make sure you’re appropriately managing stress. We’re also seeing companies arrange 45-minute meetings, instead of hour-long ones, to give people back that extra 15 minutes. What is one action item managers should take to begin addressing employee well-being? and then, “How are you really doing?”.

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Culture Policies Meeting Engagement 246

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

00:11:00 – It is not enough to just bring in diversity in order to drive inclusion, and how to effectively drive this cultural shift. 00:15:00 – How some managers might think they are performing well on diversity, but not aware of how badly they are doing. 00:06:00 – Her research in building leadership capabilities.

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Company Leadership Culture Management 254

Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This can be challenging for any manager. They miss out on the casual conversations and scuttlebutt which shape office politics and culture. It is hard for someone new to absorb company culture if they are working from home. Image by Tumisu on Pixabay. Here are some handy tips. Set Clear Objectives. Set up a Buddy System.

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Tips Management Brainstorming Meeting 227

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 8, 2020

In this post I'm going to be writing about two very interconnected issues - organizational culture and the bias for, or against, innovation. Definition of Culture I won't spend a lot of time on the definition of culture, but it is worth describing what culture "is" in this context and why it matters.

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Culture Innovation Change Project 210

Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 10, 2022

Society 2045’s Teamwork Based Innovative Work Culture. Today, many organizations have an individualistic approach to their culture and concentrate primarily on revenues and profits. What if we concentrated our efforts on creating teamwork-based cultures, whereas the focus is on enabling the collective best in each other?

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Culture Innovation Change Company 138

Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Today the world’s most innovative companies are also some of the most successful. These companies have hardwired innovation into their framework and have ingrained innovation into their organization’s culture, but how exactly do you define a ‘culture of innovation’?

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 24, 2023

In the previous Thursday Theory Tips blog we mentioned that when processes get repeated enough times and are followed by assumption rather than explicit decision this becomes an organization’s culture. Cultivating company culture is crucial to management. These decisions are made based on culture.

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Tips Culture Groups Study 52

IdeaScale

MARCH 5, 2020

Successful innovation management derives from a mindset that welcomes new ideas and allows for a certain amount of risk. How much risk will depend on what your company is able to accept at any given time. How will organizations innovate in a risk-aversion corporate culture? Cultivate an Innovative Culture.

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Culture Collaboration Innovation Project 162

Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 3, 2021

This is not a post about biomimicry In years past, there have been (and may still be) speakers and writers who connected the innovation of plants and animals to ideas about how companies should innovate. Too often the culture overwhelms whatever the heads may want to do. It is also easier to manage, less risky and far more predictable.

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