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Can Interruptions Be A Good Thing At Work?

The Horizons Tracker

These interruptions are purposefully scheduled, enabling employees to momentarily disengage from their work and concentrate on personal activities or goals. During these anticipated interruptions, employees tend to disengage from work and focus on non-work-related objectives, which reduces attention residue and hampers idea incubation.

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6 Times Your Leadership Skills are Needed Most

Lead from Within

They also create organizational cultures that act as incubators for the next generation of intelligent leaders. As a leader, you can craft and communicate a compelling vision of the future that is backed up with clear and measurable objectives. Successful leaders inspire, encourage, build trust, and boost morale.

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8 Secrets to Creating a Collaborative Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

So here’s what I’ve observed from this incubator of positive collaboration. Respect– For The “Other Team’s” Goals and Objectives. Every family came with a gaggle of objectives. 8 Secrets to Creating a Collaborative Culture. Got collaboration issues? Some wanted a breath to connect.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea. My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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How to Think Creatively

Harvard Business Review

From an early age, we're taught in school to develop the logical, language-based, rational capacities of the left hemisphere of our brain, which is goal-oriented and impatient to reach conclusions. The left hemisphere gives names to objects in order to reduce and simplify them.

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Women Entrepreneurs Are More Likely to Get Funding If They Emphasize Their Social Mission

Harvard Business Review

In the first, we partnered with an entrepreneurship incubator that supports businesses with a social mission to study real-life venture evaluations made by potential funders and other supporters. Both discussed the commercial objectives of the business, but only one also emphasized the social mission.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

The bar was set high: The district would need to create jobs, engage the surrounding community, inspire connection between the existing neighborhood and the broader city, preserve historical identity, and incubate entrepreneurship — all while making economic sense as a development.