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Cognitive Dissonance: Why it is so hard to accept two contradictory thoughts

Idea to Value

A control group of students simply engaged in the tasks without being asked to speak to another student. Distraction or forgetting: Engaging in distractions to avoid directly addressing the discrepancy directly. After the experiment, each student indicated how much they had enjoyed the tasks.

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Eleven Reasons for the UK’s Poor Productivity

Destination Innovation

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) UK productivity has fallen to levels it held in 2007. Employees who are not engaged. The UK ranked 18th out of 20 leading countries in a survey of employee engagement involving 7,000 respondents by research firm ORC International. The UK spends less than 0.5% Poor management.

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The Importance of Prioritizing Employee Well-Being and Psychological Safety

Business and Tech

My turning point came in 2007, when I collapsed from exhaustion and broke my cheekbone. If you want to build a thriving organization, you need engaged employees, and one of the best ways to support the health of your employees and the growth of your company — especially as the pandemic continues — is by rolling out a wellness program.

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Ten years building the future together

Exago

In November 2007, Exago was born. In 2006, an IT visionary, an innovation hunter and an algorithm doer met for coffee and an idea came up. Now, on our 10th anniversary, we celebrate the results of our brilliant customers and the over one million users who have taken part in building their organisation’s future. From […].

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Cracking the complexity code

Paul Hobcraft

There was a good article within the McKinsey Quarterly published way back in 2007 entitled “Cracking the complexity code,” written by three authors Suzanne Heywood, Jessica Spungin, and David Turnbull. It still has a lot of relevancy in my mind today.

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What is Discontinuous Innovation? Definition, Examples and Management

eZassi

This often leads to the creation of entirely new markets and fundamentally changes the way consumers engage with a product or service, marking a significant evolution in the industry. Moving from the DVD-by-mail service to streaming in 2007 marked a pivotal moment in the streaming giant’s history.

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How Should Your Business Find the Next Big Thing?

IdeaScale

Netflix’s streaming video model seems blindingly obvious now, but stop and consider the state of television in 2007. And it engages your team with your product, to not take it for granted, to keep thinking about it. Internet video” was amateurs on YouTube singing about candy.