Fri.Feb 10, 2023

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What Happens When You Invite Questions From Your Team?

Michael Roberto

I'm reading University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham's new book, Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy. The book offers terrific advice on learning strategies for students, as well as tips for teachers on how to help students learn more effectively. In the book, Willingham writes, If your students consistently do not ask questions, you should wonder about your relationship with them.

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Practice Empathy as a Team

Harvard Business Review

Employees who feel genuine care from their colleagues are less exhausted, more present, better teammates, and more satisfied.

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Top Innovation Activities for Individuals and Teams to Try

InnovationTraining.org

These activities are designed to help organizations get started with innovation. Our ability to adapt and innovate is essential in an ever-changing technological landscape. Businesses and organizations who want to stay ahead must evolve and learn from and with their customers to create better solutions to life’s challenges. The use of innovation activities is one way to accomplish these goals, spur creativity, and drive business or organizational growth.

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Elevating the Importance of Construction and Manufacturing

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Restaurants aren’t open as much as they used to be because they cannot hire enough people to do the work. Simply put, there are too few people who want to take the orders; cook the food; deliver food to the tables; clear the tables; and wash the dishes.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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10 Popular Innovation Exercises to Try

InnovationTraining.org

These exercises are designed for innovative workshops and sessions. Innovation exercises are designed to help participants find creative solutions to life’s everyday challenges. We’ve helped organizations across the world go beyond what they thought was possible by using some of these techniques! 1. Design thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that puts the user at the center of the design process.

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Geopolitics Are Changing. Venture Capital Must, Too.

Harvard Business Review

As we shift away from the unique conditions that fueled global growth for the past 30 years, investors will need more capital — and more patience.

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How to Set Department Goals: 5 Useful Tips

CMOE

Execution excellence is one of the top challenges leaders face globally— 90% of them fail to achieve their goals. In addition, two-thirds of large organizations globally struggle to implement their strategies. Many leaders understand what needs to be done within their organization. But how to fulfill that objective is often the challenging part. Establishing the right department goal and roadmap is key to overcoming companies’ execution challenges and obstacles.

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Business Design is reDesign – Start Mapping and Stop Controlling

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Amidst today's uncertain economic conditions, organizations struggle to meet their innovation mandates. By definition, innovation involves continuous reinvention. A well-designed organization attracts and retains top talent, just as better-designed products and services attract customers. Yet organizations resist change and lack the courage to re-design themselves and adapt to uncertain socio-economic conditions.

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Want to Help Me Write My Next Book?

Stephen Shapiro

Yesterday I submitted the manuscript for my next book to early readers. Although this is book number seven, I am using a different strategy than I have in the past. The big influencers were two books I read on the writing process: Write a Must Read by AJ Harper is a truly fantastic book. The key concept reinforced throughout is, “Don’t write about something, write for someone.” Simple yet brilliant.

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How to Be an Ally to Colleagues After Violence Against Their Community

Harvard Business Review

Silence speaks volumes.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.