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How serious are you about innovation?

IdeaSpies

IdeaSpies Enterprise, a platform for ideas that will improve business performance, has released the results of an Employee Innovation Survey. The purpose of the survey was to determine if employees have a voice in helping their organisations succeed. Innovation was defined simply in the survey as “implementation of ideas that add value”. It’s good to see that 84% of leaders are talking about the need for innovation, but only 69% of employees believe the culture of their organisation actually wel

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Conscious Capitalism: Conversation with Raj Sisodia, Part Two

Innovation Excellence

Raj Sisodia is the Professor of Global Business, Babson College, Co-founder & Co-Chairman, Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Raj has written ten books and over 100 academic articles. Explain what you describe as the male and female modes of running a business. Capitalism had a mother and a father, and they were both embodied in the same.

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Not All Faliure is Smart Failure

Michael Roberto

Source: Flckr Several months ago, long-time executive and now Duke Professor Jon Fjeld published an article for Sloan Management Review titled, "How to Test Your Assumptions." He begins the article by questioning the "fail fast" approach embraced by many entrepreneurs in recent years. He notes that many startups do not understand the lean startup philosophy, and they are implementing it in a haphazard and ineffective way.

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