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5 Signs Your One-on-Ones Aren’t Working

Harvard Business Review

Despite all that one-on-one meetings can offer, they can be challenging to navigate, whether you’re new to management or have spent several years in a leadership role. Here some signs that your one-on-ones have gone stale, are unproductive, or are falling short of their potential: you don’t want to go to the meeting, you always go over time, you can’t fill the time, you leave every meeting feeling deflated, or you and your direct report are both on second screens.

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Four Principles Of Successful Digital Transformation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell When Steve Jobs and Apple launched the Macintosh with great fanfare in 1984, it was to be only one step in a long journey that began with Douglas Engelbart’s Mother of All Demos and the development of the Alto at Xerox PARC more than a decade before.

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Research: Why Companies Should Disclose Their Lack of Progress on DEI

Harvard Business Review

Many companies have set goals to increase employee diversity, and many companies have fallen short of meeting their goals. Most leaders would likely prefer to keep this lack of progress quiet, but research shows that there may be benefits to being transparent about it. Specifically, this type of disclosure can signal that you take diversity seriously and are genuinely committed to the goals you’ve set for your organization.

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of May 2024

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Stop Overlooking the Leadership Potential of Asian Employees

Harvard Business Review

When companies leverage the diverse talents of their Asian workforce, they can evolve into more global, agile, and powerful hubs of innovation and growth.

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BE INNOVATIVE IN TAKING SMART RISKS

ImagineNation

After founding ImagineNation in Israel, I invested a year of my time and considerable money in taking smart risks to invent an experiential business game. This involved collaborating with one of the top game design companies to co-create a live business simulation incorporating innovative gamification elements intending to teach corporations how to be innovat ive.

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We still need to sell Business Ecosystems

Ecosystems4Innovating

The selling of Business Ecosystems needs facilitation and realization So often, you get the question, “What are the arguments for selling B2B business ecosystems?” Then why would enterprises invest in such a significant change to their systems and structures? Where is the value and payback? It should be recognized that selling B2B business ecosystems to enterprises can be a compelling proposition as it offers several potential benefits and value propositions.

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Best Practices Vs First Principles Based Leadership

Rmukesh Gupta

Earlier today, I read a blog post by Greg Satell titled “This Is One Big Reason Why So Much Business Thinking Is Crap“ In the post he shares his insight on how business fads are created, propagated and result in much waste before fading away. I agree with him whole-heartedly. Building best practices through case studies and interviews, in my opinion is somewhat similar to how blind men would define an elephant, just by feeling a part of the elephant.

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Enterprise Architects in Innovation Management | ITONICS

ITONICS

According to a recent study by McKinsey and Henley Business School, nowadays innovation management and digital transformation go hand in hand. Enterprise Architects play an integral role in this. The study emphasizes the need for enterprise architects to facilitate digitization by managing technological complexity and setting the course for the evolution of the IT landscape around their companies.