business
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How Smart Businesses Are Turning Academic Research Into Profits
To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. Those factors do play important roles, but the most important thing driving America’s success has been its unparalleled scientific leadership.
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Is Your Company Faking Creativity?
Many companies implement gimmicks and free stuff in an attempt to appear like a creative company, but it's all fake. The company leaders who actually foster creativity get out of employees way and LET it happen naturally.
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Beware Of Simple Rules And Slogans—They Can Kill Your Business
Simple rules may seem to make sense, but when we try to apply them in the real world we find that things are far more complicated and simple rules aren’t much help.
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Dr. Emma Seppälä on How Happiness Can Accelerate Your Success (Podcast)
The research shows that we needn’t be chronically over-scheduled and over-caffeinated to achieve our goals. Pursuing things like meaningful relationships, gratitude and self-compassion can actually be more conducive to success.
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Dr. Ron Friedman on Extraordinary Workplaces (Podcast)
Ron Friedman Ph.D. shares science-backed recommendations to help companies improve their hiring process, boost motivation and enhance decision-making. In this episode we take a very practical look at how to close the gap between the latest science and the modern workplace.
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The 9 Rules Of Innovation
Take a slightly broader view and it becomes clear that innovation today goes far beyond research labs, Silicon Valley pitch meetings and large corporate initiatives. We all have something to offer and can add to the world’s knowledge in a way that may differ in degree, but not in kind, to the giants of the past.
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When You Feel Lost in Creative Work & Business
When it comes to my creative projects and my business enterprises, it took me a long time to realize there was no shame in asking for directions.
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Millennial: It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
Time and time again we are led to believe the differences separating Millennials, Gen X, and Baby Boomers are causing all sorts of leadership challenges. Surprisingly, the labels we believe to be true are actually hurting our organizations, demolishing creativity.
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Here’s How The Anger Over Starbucks New Reward Program Could Have Been Avoided
Anger over the Starbucks rewards program isn't about lower value, it's about broken trust.
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Peyton Manning Just Taught Us a Lesson in Creative Leadership, and You Missed It
The contrast between Peyton Manning and Cam Newton is striking and holds a very significant lesson in creative team leadership.
