Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 28, 2022

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. A career used to describe your roles in one company throughout your working life, like a career at Monsanto, Deloitte, a university or IBM. But, the workplace and generational attitudes have changed, along with a prolonged life expectancy, so careers now mean something different.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

Here are some reasons why your innovation initiative will fail. It would also help to have an innovation morbidity and mortality conference so others can learn from your mistakes. One reason your new product or process development might fail is what you call it. An invention is an idea or discovery reduced to practice.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 18, 2020

Entrepreneurship, i.e. the pursuit of opportunity with scarce resources with the goal of creating user-defined value through the deployment of innovation, needs to be part of the learning goals of every student and program at every educational level. Here are five strategies for developing a next gen workforce.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 18, 2013

Having discussions about this with Human Resources, Organization Development and other consultants. Are personality profiles effective for determining employee competencies? Your Quick Fixes are Exacerbating Your Organizational and Team Problems.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Gregory Unruh is a thought leader dedicated to sustainability innovation for business and the world. An Associate Professor of Sustainability at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, he is a noted writer, speaker and educator in the areas of corporate social responsibility, environmental management and innovation management.

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Art Petty

JUNE 24, 2024

Managers must work together with group members to define what it means to collaborate, communicate, problem-solve, and innovate in pursuit of their function's charter. Culture in a group is too important to be left to chance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

On average, according to researcher David Meyer, switching time increases the amount of time it takes to finish the primary task you were working on by an average of 25 percent. In a global economy characterized by unprecedented competitiveness and constant change, nearly every CEO hungers for ways to drive more innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

In The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters , Robert Meyer and Howard Kunreuther point to several personal traits that expose us to greater risk from natural disasters. But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

Exactly how capitalism is changing (and the inevitability of its metamorphosis) is the subject of Chris Meyer and Julia Kirby's masterful new book, Standing on the Sun. We already know the answer: the kind of innovation that comes from collaboration, not competition. So what replaces competition, what drives growth today?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments Lori Meyer Thank you for this interesting and important look back at some of our country's founders. Washington's cabinet is frequently regarded as one of the best in the history of the presidency. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

As a rule, organizations have favored other qualities and attributes – in particular, those that are easy to measure, and those that allow an employee’s development to be tracked in the form of steady, linear progress through a set of well-defined roles and business structures. They rebound more quickly from stressful events.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team.

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