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The Strategic Power of Hope

Harvard Business Review

Behavioral science has shown that hope can power positive outcomes for both people and organizations.

Culture 28
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Best Team Building Exercise Around

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from David Burkus Team building is a crucial element of creating a strong team culture. Understanding each other’s differences and preferences is a vital step in becoming a high-performing team. But many leaders struggle to find and deliver effective team building exercises. There are many too choose from, and many fall short.

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When Your Team Bypasses You to Get Things Done

Harvard Business Review

To reestablish the chain of command, start by understanding why your employees are going around you.

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of November 2024

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?

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Going Beyond Chatbots: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems, & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.

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How to Cultivate Joy on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Menlo Innovations CEO Richard Sheridan explains why joy is so important for innovation.

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Mindfulness in the Workplace: The Key to Purpose and Sustainable Performance

Tullio Siragusa

Mindfulness in the Workplace: The Key to Purpose and Sustainable Performance Burnout is becoming a recurring challenge that leaders must face head-on. As companies strive for innovation and growth, the human element often gets overlooked. Yet, as Justin Winstead, founder of The Improver Group, highlighted on The Bliss Business Podcast , the real solution to this crisis lies in a tool as ancient as it is powerful — mindfulness.

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Pivot Like Nobody Is Watching

IM Insights

Innovation consultants love a good buzzword—pivot, disruption, synergy, you name it. They can rarely tell you what they mean by it, but they sure know how to sprinkle them into every meeting like confetti. One minute, they are VR experts waxing lyrical about the Metaverse (remember when that was going to change everything?), and the next, they are AI experts, dropping ChatGPT references in every second sentence.

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How to Prepare Your Company for AI Incidents

Harvard Business Review

When something goes wrong with an AI system or model, the approaches used to respond to problems caused by traditional software systems don’t work. A new playbook is required. It includes defining AI, identifying relevant harms, designating responders, developing plans to contain the damage in the short term, carrying out a longer-term containment strategy to stop the harm from spreading further, and conducting a post-mortem review.