Wed.Nov 16, 2022

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How to Encourage People to Offer Suggestions & Ideas

Michael Roberto

Why do some front-line workers keep their best ideas to themselves? How might we encourage them to bring their suggestions forward to their managers in a proactive fashion? Jieun Pai, Jennifer Whitson, Junha Kim and Sujin Lee have published an interesting paper addressing these questions. They conducted a field experiment at a large manufacturing company with several thousand technicians.

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The one pledge leaders should make at this year’s climate conference?

Christensen Institute

What if world leaders pledged that there would be no major climate conference in 2023 unless certain climate goals are met after this year’s conference? In essence, no COP28 if COP27 promises and pledges go unfulfilled. It’s no secret that since 1995, when the first COP event was held, annual global CO2 emissions have risen by more than 50%. As Michael Horn and I highlighted in this article in June, even though more than 99% of scientists agree that climate change is serious and that humans are

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The Indispensable Role of Middle Management in Lean

Kainexus

Many organizations that seek to implement the Lean business methodology find that their structure is too rigid and bureaucratic to effectively support or sustain Lean principles. Those that overcome this challenge often start by reimagining the role of middle managers, evolving them from "enforcers" to enablers and coaches of front-line workers and supervisors.

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Using Leading and Lagging Indicators to Drive Your Business Forward

Innovation Excellence

You get what you measure, so make sure you’re tracking the right things. GUEST POST from Soren Kaplan I’ve seen a lot of organizations create strategies, programs, and projects focused on optimizing operations, streamlining processes, and driving innovation. Leadership teams put lots of energy coming up with the next big thing. But amazingly few teams […].

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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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5 Lessons from Automakers on Navigating Supply Chain Disruptions

Harvard Business Review

Strategies to protect your business and deliver a “good enough” product.

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How to Get the Best from Crowdsourcing

Flying Fish Lab

If you have not commissioned or participated in a Crowdsourcing contest yet, you are missing out! Here are a few reasons why: Many organisations see “Crowdsourcing” as a buzzword that is complex and difficult to get great results from. Asking a crowd to help you solve your challenge will: • Offer you a diverse set of possibilities. • Help you reframe the issue. • Allow you to create breakthrough.

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7 Ways to Embrace Delegation as a Skill to Strengthen Remote Teams

CMOE

Delegation is the most important skill to master when working with remote teams. If you want your remote team to excel, you need to be able to trust them and set them up for success by giving them the space they need to grow and learn. Delegation is a skill that many managers struggle with because it requires trust and selflessness—two things that are hard to cultivate when working with someone who isn’t physically present.

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Challenges in Open Innovation and How to Overcome Them

ITONICS

Besides the many great opportunities it offers, open innovation can also become a challenge if, for example, you are not clear about what outcomes you want to achieve or what processes you need to put in place. Recognizing obstacles and using the right methods and tools to overcome them can make the process much easier. Learn more about the challenges of open innovation and how to tackle them in this blog.

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How to Respond When an Employee Shares a Mental Health Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Be prepared for the next conversation.

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4 Reasons Why Looking 'Different' Helped Me Become a Stronger Leader

Entrepreneur - Innovation

People who feel like they don't "fit in" often struggle in social situations. Yet, this plight can also be the single best developer of leadership skills any ambitious, hard-working entrepreneur could hope for.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge