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What Employers Get Wrong About How People Connect at Work

Harvard Business Review

Four important kinds of connection happen in organizations — but leaders usually only focus on one.

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Innovation is Combination

Innovation Excellence

Silicon Valley’s Innovator’s Dilemma – The Atom, The Bit And The Gene GUEST POST from Greg Satell Over the past several decades, innovation has become largely synonymous with digital technology.

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Season 10 of Women at Work Starts October 21

Harvard Business Review

Stay tuned for eight episodes that speak to both the practical and emotional sides of women’s experiences at work.

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How critical Dynamic Ecosystems are to any Ecosystem Design

Ecosystems4Innovating

The importance of Recognizing Dynamic Ecosystems We recognize the need for business to embrace change and thrive through adaptation in a rapidly evolving business landscape does require a very dynamic environment. Dynamic Ecosystems are central to providing the engine to collaborations, adaptation and future leadership. Its central role is to build constant adaptation and resilience, pushing to create increasing value through discovery and extraction throughout the entire ecosystem, and providin

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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Why Marketers Are Spending Less on Social Media

Harvard Business Review

A bi-annual poll of U.S. marketing leaders found that social media investments have declined to their lowest level in seven years. An analysis of poll data suggests that lack of strategy fit, weak returns, and new competition from retail media may help explain this dip. Researchers leverage their findings to offer suggestions to marketers on how to overcome past strategy misalignment in order to continue to benefit from social media’s immediacy and pervasiveness, including through the use of Gen

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Five Priorities Is Probably Too Many

Michael Roberto

Willie Pietersen, retired CEO of businesses Lever Foods, Seagram USA, and Tropicana has written a column for Fortune in which he argues that many leaders proclaim too many priorities. The article is titled, " You can’t have 5 priorities—even Steve Jobs and Bob Iger couldn’t." He writes: During my 20 years as the CEO of various enterprises, I developed an ingrained habit.