Mon.Nov 02, 2020

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Are You Spending Your Time Correctly?

Michael Roberto

Source: Northwestern University I'm looking forward to reading Harry Kraemer's new book, Your 168: Finding Purpose and Satisfaction in a Values-Based Life. Kraemer is the retired CEO of Baxter Healthcare and currently executive partner with Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm based in Chicago. Kraemer also serves on the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.

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We are searching for new pathways

Paul Hobcraft

Ecosystems and Platforms are our pathways to a new innovation future. Ecosystems have suddenly become of age, as they can be formed around common concepts fairly rapidly, they can enable cross-cutting innovation to be delivered in highly collaborative ways. They can, through shared platforms achieve a closer relationship with the customer, to understand their needs and experience through increased collaboration, and engagement.

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How to Become a Manifesting Machine

Tullio Siragusa

How to Become a Manifesting Machine. Have you recently lost a job or suffered personal loss? Learning to become a manifesting machine might be just what you need right now. People talk about manifestation a lot. Manifesting your dream life, job, relationship, and every other thing. Often many people think all you have to do is dream it, desire it, and magically things will just manifest in your life.

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How to turn cold leads into hot sales for your corporate startup

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How to turn cold calls into hot sales for your corporate startup. A guideline on how to make your cold calls successful and get your first paying customers. Discover our tips and tricks on sales conversation strategy, practical phrases, and how to feel more comfortable while cold calling. ( BONUS : download two scripts that you can follow in your next cold call to make it a success.).

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4 HR Predictions for 2025: Supercharge Your Employee Experience with Internal Communications

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

The future of HR is here, and it's all about collaboration, innovation, and impact. Join us for a forward-thinking session where seasoned experts Miriam and Carolyn will share insights and practical strategies to help you stay ahead of evolving HR trends. Discover how to build strong partnerships with internal teams to craft a transparent, authentic, and connected workforce experience.

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Highlights from October on Reconnecting With Customers and Colleagues

Innovation Leader

We’ve gathered the best advice we’ve been given by innovators in our live show, report, and online coverage to help you reconnect with your customers and colleagues.

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#1,987 – Sky Diamonds

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Diamonds are forever and so too is the long-term damage they impose on the environment. What really would be a girl’s best friend then would be diamonds that don’t harm the environment when they are produced. A feat of modern ingenuity that may actually be possible to pull off thanks to newly designed Sky Diamonds that get made by sucking carbon dioxide from the air.

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#1,988 – Powerball Voting

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

You would think that everyone would register to vote. Especially this year. There’s a lot on the line. Or at the very least that everyone that is registered to vote would cast their ballot. And yet that won’t happen either. To a certain extent I get it. People are disenfranchised with the Electoral College system. They feel like their individual vote doesn’t matter.

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If You Plan on Asking an Outside Innovation Consultant for Help

Idea Champions

If someone from your company's leadership team asks you to locate an outside consultant to help your organization raise the bar for innovation, stop for a moment and ask the person asking you to locate an outside consultant to answer the following questions. If they answer "NO" to any of them or look at you as if you are ungrateful, uppity, or "not a team player", do not accept the assignment.

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#1,986 – Play-Doh For Grown Ups

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a 38 year old man. I see a 38 year old man-child. I suppose that’s a good thing. We probably should be trying to maintain our youthful innocence, untamed imaginations, and carefree nature for as long as possible. It’s good for the soul to have fun and not be burdened all the time by adult responsibilities like paying bills and worrying about election results.

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Five Ways to Teach Your Children to Be More Creative

Innovation in Practice

If you think innovation is only for adults, well, you’re wrong – because kids can just be as innovative as adults are, even more sometimes. . Here are 5 ways to teach your kids to be more creative: Function Follows Form. This is the idea of working backward where you start with a solution first and then work back to the problem. An example of this is the Ruined Product Exercise where you have your kid take any product around the house.

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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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Remote Transformation: Working remotely requires cultural change

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Your answer will depend on the generation you were born. Millennials may find that remote has been gaining momentum. Generation Z is absolutely sure that it has always existed. There is no right answer. The fact is: the world is remote. The pandemic and social isolation made this fact more clear. And it accelerated the changes in Remote Transformation.

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