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Ten pitfalls inventors face and tips for avoiding them

Idea to Value

Partners and team. Managing your business. Tip: Do your research before you start investing time and money. Tip: If you`re convinced about your idea and your diligent research proves the potential, go for it. Tip: Develop mock-ups or prototypes early and use them for validating your assumptions and the market need.

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Five Key Considerations for Managing Lay-offs

Destination Innovation

Hard times can strike any business or any organisation, even ones which have been well managed and successful. You have recruited and developed a successful team. Here are some key considerations and tips. It is probably best to let go the least effective people so carefully discuss with managers and identify the list.

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Development Opportunities for Supervisors: Top 12 Resources & Tools

CMOE

Supervising can be extremely rewarding but also challenging—there are varying personalities, communication styles, skill sets, and roadblocks to manage, all while trying to maintain high-quality output. The good news is, there are development opportunities for supervisors that can help you succeed in your role.

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The basket of bad ideas scenario

Jeffrey Phillips

A good movie, The Big Short, noted that this same philosophy, mixing up a number of bad loans into a new package, is what caused the sub-prime lending disaster. This concept of a basket of weak or bad ideas is not practiced just in Hollywood, however. You could basically predict every scene, what key actors would say or do.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value. In this webinar they will teach you: 3 principles that allow Design and Product Management to work together more effectively.

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How to Set Department Goals: 5 Useful Tips

CMOE

Workforce members understand what is expected of them, and they are more likely to achieve goals when they work collectively as a cohesive team. For example, the level of quality each team member must achieve for the department. Perhaps one current company initiative is enhancing communication between team members and departments.

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Top Qualities of a Good Team Leader (And How to Develop Them)

CMOE

Like any hard or soft skill, leadership qualities are developed through conscious, consistent learning and training. The skills you need will depend on your role and industry, but for this article, CMOE is taking a holistic approach and highlighting the top seven qualities of a good team leader. How to Develop This. Motivation.