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

Idea to Value

Dieting: An individual may value health and weight management but finds themselves eating a high-calorie dessert. They may try to reduce their dissonance is by telling themselves that other people also do it, or that as long as nobody finds out, they will not feel harmed.

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Fusion, Flow and Fluidity are needed in our Management Practices

Paul Hobcraft

We need a new management model, one where we are pushing to seek increasing new knowledge. We actually are in urgent need of a new management operating model. We need a new management practice to deal with our digital world. Applying the three horizon lens to develop new management practices.

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Maker’s schedules, Manager’s schedules and why meetings can destroy productivity

Idea to Value

Managers: Managers like to fill their calendar meetings from start to finish, in order to make important decisions quickly and help others progress on things that require their input or for them to unlock. As a result, a manager’s schedule often looks like a full series of back to back meetings.

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Authority Bias: Why we submit to the ideas and orders of others

Idea to Value

This experiment has recently been replicated in a 2009 study , showing the authority bias is still strong in today’s society. Many participants would continue to increase the shocks even when they themselves were becoming nervous about what they were doing.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Leisa Reichelt

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. As a designer for a prominent open source community project, what have you found to be the keys to success in working with open source developers, specifically on the usability and experience fronts?

Design 61
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Tony Hsieh – The Remarkable Cultural Innovator at Zappos

Destination Innovation

While there, as a student job he managed a pizza grill. By 2009, he had grown revenues to $1 billion. Managers make cultural assessments rather than performance evaluations and give raises based on skill tests. He organized a major re-development and revitalization project for the dilapidated downtown area of Las Vegas.

Culture 157
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A Stakeholder Interview Checklist

Boxes and Arrows

Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews. What is your role in this project? What worries you about this project? What should this project accomplish for the business? How will you, personally, define success for this project? How will you, personally, define success for this project?

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