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Culture Creator = Sustainable Innovation

IdeaScale

The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated. A few of the early steps in playing the role of culture creator as a change agent include: Clarify your definition and expectations regarding innovation for your team.

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Innovation is a team sport

Cris Beswick

At OUTCOME , we believe innovation is a system game, meaning it’s a team sport. The challenge is that many organisations have lost sight of the true definition of a team. 1] Let’s also differentiate between a department or group inside an organisation, as a group does not necessarily constitute a team.

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The dos and don'ts of innovation shared by 10 global leaders

hackerearth

Easily the first lesson in the innovation handbook, asking “why” and “what-if” will set the ball rolling. In a meeting in 2013, IBM CEO Virginia Rometty gave her workers quite a talking to, telling them to move fast and respond to customers faster to combat poor revenues. The only way to win is as a team.

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. For those interested in engaging classic literature, Wikipedia has a list of "The 100 Best Books of All Time," and Modern Library has picks for novels and nonfiction.

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. For those interested in engaging classic literature, Wikipedia has a list of "The 100 Best Books of All Time," and Modern Library has picks for novels and nonfiction.

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Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?

Harvard Business Review

Organizations know this learning is important, which is why they invest significant resources in handbooks, protocols, formal mentoring programs, and knowledge management systems to share employees’ experiences. Yet analyst estimates suggest that the companies in the Fortune 500 still lose a combined $31.5 Putting it into practice.

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How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work from Home

Harvard Business Review

” Still, working from home has a bad rap. ” But, in fact, research suggests the opposite: Working from home increases productivity, efficiency, and engagement. Two years ago, when Mark Scott took the job as chief marketing officer at Apixio, a digitized medical records company, he knew that his commute would be bad.