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Is Micromanagement Why Your Innovation Program is Failing?

IdeaScale

“It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do." ? Steve Jobs. Micromanagement can have devastating consequences for both employees and organizations. Unfortunately, many leaders adopt micromanagement, believing it will optimize and accelerate results. Even if [.].

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Opportunity cost

Idea to Value

Every choice you make comes with trade-offs. This is especially true when it comes to strategic decisions around innovation. If you choose to spend your time, focus, effort and money developing one idea or innovation, it means you cannot spend those same resources on other ideas. Therefore, you must give up the opportunity to do something else in order to work on your innovation.

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Monitoring Individual Employees Isn’t the Way to Boost Productivity

Harvard Business Review

Instead, companies should use data on how their teams collectively work to find where bottlenecks, breakdowns, and bad design are making work harder and slower.

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The Role of Instagram in Customer Experience

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Part of what fuels a good customer experience is the content experience. That’s where companies and brands serve up content in numerous ways, which could include (but is not limited to) articles, blogs, text messages, newsletters, YouTube videos, podcasts, TikTok content, Tweets, LinkedIn posts and the subject of this article, […].

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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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4 Types of Innovators Every Organization Needs

Harvard Business Review

Generators, conceptualizers, optimizers, and implementers all play important roles in the innovation process.

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Schools should focus on progress, not on finding problems

Christensen Institute

A new skirmish is emerging in education reform. Some want students to not only learn how to solve problems but also how to find them. Others fear that training students to seek out problems is creating ruinous pessimism. There’s a better way forward that splits the difference between the two camps. It relies on ensuring that students develop agency—not learned helplessness—by seeking to make progress in the mold of an American ideal.

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