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Toxic Competition in the Workplace

CMOE

Toxic Competition in the Workplace: Recognition, Prevention, and Fostering Healthier Outlooks Competition is often a helpful catalyst for innovation and productivity in the business world. However, when competition crosses the line from healthy motivation to toxic action, it can harm workplace culture and team well-being.

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Creating the Industrial Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

If you take a more holistic view of the all the connected parts of innovation that value-add, built on customer need, that a structured innovation process offers, the result is likely to be more radical in design and end-result. Siemens is in some highly competitive industrial markets. I felt innovation needed a more holistic focus.

Industry 187
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Building an Agile & Innovative Organization

Idea to Value

For example, there are often processes that are specifically designed to eliminate risks and control change. And, if you don’t have customers, the reason really isn’t your competition, it’s you not providing them with enough value. If it was, everyone would be doing it, and it wouldn’t lead to much of a competitive advantage.

Agile 312
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Use Intuition for Innovation Just Like Apple and Target

Leapfrogging

Robyn Waters, the former vice president of trend, design and product development, once told me the same thing. Participants in the first group are asked to select the best apartment immediately after reading the comparisons–they don’t have time to really think about their choice.

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Getting a Form's Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Email Applications

Boxes and Arrows

Yes, this is for all of you out there—my fellow usability practitioners, information architects, designers, managers, project leads, editors, and people who are looking to develop their UX practice. But do we, as designers and usability practitioners, always help them do it? I say, “No.”

Design 65
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Total Quality Management: The Key to Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

All activities and processes are designed with the customer in mind, ensuring that the end product or service not only satisfies but delights the customer. Market Competitiveness Organizations that implement Total Quality Management are better positioned to compete in the market.

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Some students succeed at the expense of others. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Christensen Institute

Mastery-based learning systematically embeds perseverance into its design. Mastery-based learning systematically embeds perseverance into its design. Competition can be good. Social comparisons can help an individual realize certain things are possible that they would not have imagined otherwise.