Tue.Jun 07, 2016

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To Successfully Implement Innovation in Business, You Must Fight Organizational Culture of Fear and Innovation Assassination

Idea to Value

The new innovation in business book Robert’s Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation explains that the main reason even the most promising innovative ideas fail is due to the organizational failure to implement the innovation plans. Why is it that organizations shy away from innovation implementation? As discussed in Chapter 2 of Robert’s Rules of Innovation II , innovation implementation is frequently impeded by an organization’s deep-rooted culture of fear and subsequent innovation a

Culture 101
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Emotional Intelligence in coaching and management, with Victoria Mikhailova

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Victoria Mikhailova is an experienced leadership coach with multiple skills: situation understanding and intelligence, process communication, and emotional skills and competences, and organizational and individual behaviour, coaching for teams and managers.

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Invisible Innovation

100%Open

Great performers become invisible on the stage. The actor becomes indistinguishable from the character. “If you are really good the performer disappears” Nico Muhly. Design is often noticed when it’s bad, so great design is often hard to see and appreciate. Because it just works, it’s easy to miss the hard work that was necessary to make it so intuitive to use.

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Four Lessons From My Great Bosses/Mentors

Mills-Scofield

Posted this in Medium this week. Given all the discussion on Women in Tech, Silicon Valley biases, etc., I thought it was time to repost. and learn. “ My first boss at Bell Labs had a habit of yelling. While he was an equal-opportunity yeller, when he shouted at me in my first department meeting, I got up, told him when he wanted to talk, not yell, I’d be in my office and walked out.

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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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Why Values are Very Important for Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Would you know what things matter to your employees? This post explores why this matters, especially for innovation.

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Muhammad Ali: an analogy for innovation

Innovation Excellence

Today I'll argue that Ali embodies innovation, and his life is symbolic and perhaps an analogy for what innovators live and do.