Mon.Jan 22, 2018

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13 Strategic Thinking Questions to Imagine a Radically Different Future

BrainZooming

Need to challenge your team to being imagining the future, realizing it may look hardly anything like today ? Originating in a long-term future visioning exercise we designed and facilitated for a client, we developed these questions to prompt a group’s thinking about dramatic future change. The point was to push them to consider the future as something other than a trend line based on yesterday and today.

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6 absolutely crazy ideas that actually worked and made money

hackerearth

“Good ideas are always crazy, until they are not.”. -Larry Page, Co-founder, Google. Genius ideas come in many forms. And sometimes, they come from the least expected places. Innovation knows no boundaries. Just like it was an unorthodox idea that gave us the good fortune of sticking our to-do lists all over our desks with Post-It Notes, there is a whole world of similar unconventional, very nearly crazy, yet innovative ideas that actually worked.

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When it’s time to think inside the box

Innovation Excellence

It’s a common call – we want more innovation, disruptive innovation, new options. We need to think outside the box. It often makes sense to think outside the box. When the usual thinking hasn’t solved the problem, new approaches are needed. After all, if the same people are sat at the same table trying to.

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6 absolutely crazy ideas that worked and made money

hackerearth

“Good ideas are always crazy, until they are not.”. -Larry Page, Co-founder, Google. Genius ideas come in many forms. And sometimes, they come from the least expected places. Innovation knows no boundaries. Just like it was an unorthodox idea that gave us the good fortune of sticking our to-do lists all over our desks with Post-It Notes, there is a whole world of similar unconventional, very nearly crazy, yet innovative ideas that actually worked.

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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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Seeking out new knowledge that flows

Innovation Excellence

I have been heavily influenced by the great work of John Hagel and Deloitte’s “Big Shift Index” as a frame to measure the forces of long-term change. What really holds my attention is “knowledge flows” and they are suggesting we are moving from a world of push to a world of pull. The world is.

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Unleashing “Aha” Moments by Eliminating Extinguishers

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

When Ellen Kullman, former CEO of DuPont, was recently interviewed for the book Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life, her answer to what extinguishes innovation in organizations came fast and furious. “Organizations get bogged down by ‘I won’t. I can’t.

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How Organizations Can Manage Innovation

Wellspring

In the last thirty minutes, 700 patents were filed, 150 scientific articles were published, and 70 new start-ups were founded.

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How to Foster a Culture of Innovation in Your Company

hackerearth

Innovation is critical to business success now more than ever. It is imperative for business leaders and entrepreneurs to make innovation their constant business priority. But how do you challenge norms and encourage innovation in your organization? Jane E. Stevenson, vice chairman for CEO & Board Services at Korn Ferry and co-author of “Breaking Away: How Great Leaders Create Innovation That Drives Sustainable Growth—and Why Others Fail” says, “It starts at the top, but innovation is a team

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The Best of My Huffington Post Articles on Storytelling

Idea Champions

You may not know this, but I have been a Huffington Post blogger for the past five years. During that time, I've published a number of well-received articles on storytelling, with a special focus on storytelling in the workplace. Below are links to some of them. Each one will take you less than four minutes to read unless you are multi-tracking, catotonic, or heavily sedated.

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VR Happy Hour RSVP Email

Taivara

What's the best email for us to send a reminder? Email Address. RSVP. The post VR Happy Hour RSVP Email appeared first on Taivara.

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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.

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Delegating Tough Choices to Avoid Responsibility and Regret

Michael Roberto

Mary Steffel and Elanor Williams have published a study on delegation in the Journal of Consumer Research. They conducted a series of experimental studies to determine when and why consumers delegate difficult purchasing decisions. They found that people tend to delegate tough choices to avoid responsibility/blame and to avoid the possible feelings of regret that emerge when one makes challenging decisions.

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How to transfer your mind maps between computers and mobile devices?

xMind

XMind Cloud will be officially shut down on 31 Jan 2018. If you still haven’t downloaded your mind maps stored on XMind Cloud, please click Here to download all your mind maps with one click. After we published this news , we received many supportive comments from our users, for which we are very grateful. We really appreciate the support you have always given us.

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24 Quotes on Good Communication

Idea Champions

1. "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." - Peter Drucker. 2. "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw 3."Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats. 4. "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus. 5.