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The Business of Innovation – The Human Element

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Innovation is the introduction of new things or methods and is the life blood of business today. Innovative companies realize remarkable marketplace rewards. The challenge before leaders is how to inspire their workforce to use the full measure of their creative power to advance the organization in new and better ways.

The Business of Innovation is a five part series created by CNBC in association with IBM. Within each episode, Maria Bartiromo and a distinguished panel of guests discuss what it takes to be an innovation leader.

StrategyDriven Podcast Receives Top Honors in August

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The StrategyDriven Team would like to thank you, our listeners, for helping us achieve the third place ranking for the StrategyDriven Podcast from among the over 2,900 business podcasts listed on Podcast Alley in August! Additionally, the StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective Podcast placed fourth among all business podcasts in only its third month.

In each episode, our co-hosts and their guests present a richer and deeper exploration of the principle, best practice, and warning flag articles found on the StrategyDriven website. Their discussions identify benefits, define implementation methods, and provide examples to help leaders increase alignment and heighten accountability within their organizations.

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Multiple Action Thresholds

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Recovery from a significant event is costly and disruptive. While an expense, mitigating and preventing activities taken to prevent the event’s occurrence are typically far less expensive. From a business perspective, the challenge becomes that of balancing the value of risk reduction with that of the mitigating and preventative activities’ cost.

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Additional information regarding organizational performance measures and their thresholds can be found in the StrategyDriven whitepaper series Organizational Performance Measures.

How to Get Fired! Or keep your job, whichever you’d prefer

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So, your formal education is coming to a close. You’ve had a wonderful time in school, and you’re in no hurry to trade that for a life filled with stress and responsibility. In fact, this whole ‘getting a job’ thing isn’t even your idea; it’s your parent’s or school counselor’s idea, it’s the entire seething mass of society trying to crush your freedom.

Well then, fight back! If you would rather play video games all day than suffer through a lifetime of stable employment, here’s exactly what you need to do:

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About the Author

Jeff Havens is a former comedian turned college and corporate speaker. His latest comedy lecture, How to Get Fired!, helps prepare college students for their professional lives by ‘encouraging’ them to do each of the top ten things that most commonly cost people their jobs. The accompanying book, How to Get Fired!: The New Employee’s Guide to Perpetual Unemployment, is available in all popular retail outlets and online at www.Amazon.com and www.jeffhavens.com.

Leadership Inspirations – The Power of the Team

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead (1901 – 1978)
American cultural anthropologist