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Can You Change Your Company’s Rhythm?
A recent Gallup poll announced that worldwide only about 13% of the workforce is engaged in the work they do. Engaged? As Gallup puts it: psychologically committed to their jobs and likely to be making positive contributions to their organizations. The US and Canada...Memo To Staff: Take More Risks (WSJ March 20)
The WSJ ran a great piece by Leslie Kwoh called Memo To Staff: Take More Risks highlighting the move by some CEOs to encourage staff to innovate, try things and to stop just surviving. Seth Godin’s latest book The Icarus Deception shouted a similar theme – we’re all...![Innovation – Looking in the Wrong Places](https://www.portfoliopartnership.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Innovation-300x200.jpg)
Innovation – Looking in the Wrong Places
Commerce Bank went through an impressive period of growth from 1997 to 2007, market capitalization of $400m in 1997 to $8.5Bn in March 2008, when it sold out to TD Bank. Commerce wanted to re-recreate the retail experience. They didn’t look to other banks to...![Playbook #4: Innovation](https://www.portfoliopartnership.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/shutterstock_86653603.jpg)
Playbook #4: Innovation
Over the last 10 years I’ve been heavily involved in 4 different businesses, Teamstudio (Software), ETM Manufacturing (Precision Engineering), ADMET (Materials Testing Systems Manufacturer) and Net Atlantic (Email Marketing). The first three achieved Inc 5000 status...![Innovation Catalyst – Understanding your Product’s Place in the Bigger Picture](https://www.portfoliopartnership.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/shutterstock_81496924.jpg)