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How Innovation Changes During A Recession

The Horizons Tracker

While Winston Churchill was famously supposed to have remarked that we should never waste a crisis, the reality is that during recessions, firms often tighten their belts and reduce the amount they invest in innovation. “We examine innovation following the Great Depression using data on a century’s worth of U.S.

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Dinosaurs, Big Consulting Firms and Disruptive Innovation

N2Growth Blog

Christensen calls this “ disruptive innovation ” and gives examples as diverse as the personal computer industry, milkshakes, and steel minimills. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION? Earlier examples of disruptive innovations: telephone (disrupted the telegraph). GLOBAL CONSULTING & DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION.

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How to Calculate ROI of Remote vs. In-Person Work? (How to Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your finance team did a bit of quick math to calculate ROI for making the transition to remote teams permanent based on real-estate savings and reduced communite times. Are we following processes? Even with expenses that the company incurred to set people up at home (buildout, technology), the company saw a positive ROI.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Celebrate Failure

Career Advancement

Trevor wanted his people to be pillars of innovation and creativity. When he came to me for coaching around innovation, he mentioned how fearful his team was in taking risks and possibly touching failure. Why not set up a “Fail Wall” in your own workplace? Hold a “F— Up Night”. “I didn’t fail 1,000 times.

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Paper Explores Whether Wage Insurance Buffers Impact Of Disruption

The Horizons Tracker

An innovative social policy—wage insurance—shows great promise in alleviating the harmful effects of job loss, in ways that traditional unemployment insurance cannot, according to a new working paper from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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A List of Referrable Keynote Speakers and Topics to Consider for Your Next Conference

Great Results Team Building

So, following a successful program, during a break in the agenda, after leaving the stage and talking with many with conference attendees, I often find myself standing beside the organizer.