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Carefrontation — The Ultimate Leadership Trait

Great Leadership By Dan

Innovate more: Employees who know the boss has their back think outside the box without fear of failure or retribution. Regardless of the markets we serve, every one of us knows that our organization’s providence rests squarely on our ability to make the changes demanded by the fast moving target of customer satisfaction.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, companies like PCH International and Dragon Innovation are now available to manage contract manufacturing and otherwise “make manufacturing feel easy” to entrepreneurs or small companies, as noted by The Wall Street Journal’s Chris Mims last year.

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In Praise of Going it Alone

Harvard Business Review

A lot of business literature advocates teaming up wherever possible to open the doors to new ideas, draw on the unique strengths of others, and speed time to market. The photography market is highly competitive, populated by famous brand names, and dominated by powerful sales channels. Sales channels can also choke bold inventions.

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Don't Like Your Job? Change It (Without Quitting)

Harvard Business Review

He and his wife were having a second child and it wasn't a good time to make a move, especially given the tough job market. He also approached his company's training and development office about developing a course that uses positive psychology to teach innovation and creativity. Case Study #2: Start doing the job you want.

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When It Comes to Digital Innovation, Less Action, More Thought

Harvard Business Review

This is a problem affecting tens of thousands of restaurants — an attractive target market. So, like good innovators, we began working on a solution to our colleague’s problem by building an automatic liquor inventory-management system. Our failure highlights a hidden challenge facing innovators today.

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

The resulting challenges may include new contract-manufacturing relationships, which can be a complicated and disorienting process for the uninitiated. In IoT businesses, sales departments often struggle to determine how to best take a combined product and service to market. Operations.

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The Trade War with China Could Accelerate 3-D Printing in the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

Fed up with Beijing’s industrial espionage, market manipulation, and cyber attacks on the West, coupled with its bullying of neighbors and repression at home, the Trump administration announced a series of strong steps to fight back. Companies that move especially quickly could pioneer the next stage of additive manufacturing.