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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. Volkswagen.

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If it doesn't fit, it must be innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

Whether you think that is a compelling line of reasoning for a jury trial or not, it might not be a bad way to think about innovation. You see, many companies cannot adequately define innovation for their employees and teams. The second has the innovation team dreaming up its own activities and defining its own outcomes.

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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements.

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Don’t Lose Your Best People. Use the 9-Box Grid to Grow Your Future Talent.

Leapfrogging

Keep and develop your best people to create a high-performance culture and competitive advantage. In today’s disruptive world, competitive advantage relies as much on people as it does technology. Will likely become part of the future leadership team. Hiring good people is tough. I originally wrote this article for my Inc.

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HUMAN CREATIVITY AND CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING WITH GENERATIVE AI

ImagineNation

Ideascale ) How might we develop AI as a creative thinking partner to effect profound change, and create innovative solutions that help us build a more equitable and sustainable planet for all humanity? ( What’s more, inaccurate or otherwise flawed training data (for instance, data skewed by inherent biases) produces poor outcomes.”

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10 Red Flags That Your Change Management Program is Poor

MSSBTI

After all, if you have a good leadership team that communicates with employees, they must be capable of leading change. This is a plan that communications departments are not typically prepared to develop or staffed to carry out. Another issue is that the organization is relying on the Change Management team to deliver training.

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ANYONE CAN LEARN TO INNOVATE

ImagineNation

Because it is currently being challenged by poor sales performance, it has bunkered down and frozen any change initiatives, learning programs or new projects until mid-2025. The company she works for is acknowledged as an entrepreneurial industry leader. Please find out more about our work at ImagineNation.