Innovation is about offering value and changing the world. If you innovate to bring a difference in people’s lives, the money will follow eventually. But money shouldn’t be your first agenda.

Make Meaning, Not Money

Your meaning leads to mantra which is the summary of the difference you want to make. Stick to 2 to 3 words mission statement that summarises what you do. The shorter the mission statement the more clearer your path is.

Make A Mantra, Not Mission

Don’t stick to achieving 10% better from your current innovation. Create something new instead of continuously working on the existing product. Don’t limit yourself and stick to the same curve. Move to the next one.

Jump To The Next Curve.

Features of great innovation:<ul><li>Deep – The features and functionalities of great innovation are deep.</li><li>Intelligent – At the same time, great innovation is intelligent. Ford’s MyKey can control the top speed of the car through the key. Quite smart!</li><li>Complete – You can differentiate great products from mediocre by their totality, their completeness.</li><li>Empowering – Innovations that enhance your life and way of working are empowering products. They have the capability to change your life.</li><li>Elegance – An innovation offers a great design and user experience.</li></ul>

Roll The DICEE

Don’t wait for perfection when you innovate. A valuable innovation can have elements of crappiness.So, don’t worry about the flaws. Instead, ship your innovation with revolutionary outcomes. If it’s on the next curve, elements of crappiness don’t matter.

Dont Worry, Be Crappy

Your product may solve a particular problem. And you may have a specific audience in mind. Later, your product could be used & perceived in a new way by people you had never thought of.The positioning of your innovation ultimately comes down to what consumers decide. But don’t worry about that. Allow a hundred flowers to bloom from one seed and cherish a garden.

Let 100 Flowers Blossom

Be ready to polarize people with your innovations. Who says a great innovation doesn’t have critics? Your innovation might make only a small segment of people happy.Apple is a typical example. Those who don’t use an iPhone criticize it for its cost and niche features. But only an apple user has the heart to shell out what they pay for.So, don’t worry if your innovation draws negative attention. Worry if people are indifferent about it.

Polarise People

When you ship your product with a bit of crappiness, you have a scope to improve. Make new versions of your innovation, and then create another better version. Keep evolving to make a great product.

Churn Baby Churn

A great product is both valuable and unique. If your innovation is missing any of these, it might fall into the trope of mediocrity.

Niche Yourself

Naysayers will interrupt and criticize. Don’t let bozos bog down your spirits.Bozos are either the losers themselves or the rich and famous people you might perceive as correct in negating your meaning and mantra. They are still stuck in their curves and don’t appreciate the next curve you are standing at.

Dont Let The Bozoz Grind You Down

Follow the 10-20-30 rule:Have 10 slides to proposition your product. Explain these slides in 20 minutes and use 30 points fonts. With these fonts and 10 slides, you are bound to explain your innovation succinctly—need of the time.

Perfect Your Pitch

Great ideas are not lacking, its the art of innovation that does. Therefore, these 10 tips are recommendedto all entrepreneurs or product owners who are responsible for innovation.

Conclusion

We all come up with ideas everyday. Some od those of those ideas have the potential to revolutionalize mankind. These tips will help many entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators to go a step further in packaging their ideas, delivering and executing them.

InnovationManagement.se is one of the internet’s preeminent resources for innovation news and best practices, and is consistently recognized as a top-ten innovation blog globally.

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Conflict is the arrow pointing to what we need to learn the most

Conflict is described as "perceived divergence of interest, a belief that the parties’ current aspirations are incompatible.” Pruitt and Kim (2004, pp. 7–8 Conflict resolution is when an agreement is reached on contentious issues.Conflict management is when a problem has been solved where the parties had to work out ways to de-escalate conflict and avoid future escalations. Conflict is disruptive. American businesses lose $359 billion yearly due to unresolved conflict. The emotions associated with conflict include fear, anger, distrust, rejection, defensiveness, hopelessness.

Conflict resolution

People involved in conflict experience “a wide range of psychological and physical health problems including a weakened immune system, depression, alcoholism, and eating disorders.” Realistic conflict theory states that “conflict can always be explained by some tangible (such as money, territory) or intangible (like power, honor) resource" that is desired by both groups but is not available to both.

A theoretical framework for conflict resolution

When there is conflict, the body responds with a fight or flight reaction. Stress increases blood sugar levels and speeds up the heart rate. The cortisol released soaks the brain’s nerve cells, causing memories to shrink. When we deal with emotions first, it will help reduce stress, allowing for regular, rational problem-solving skills to continue. That is why it is important to wait for the emotions to subside before engaging in a discussion. Benefits include:<ol><li>Stress reduction</li><li>Improved self-esteem</li><li>Improved self-efficacy</li><li>Better relationships</li><li>Increased energy</li></ol>

Psychological benefits of conflict resolution

<h3>The following skills are vital for resolving conflict.</h3><ul><li>Self-awareness is recognising a feeling when it happens.</li><li>Self-control is the ability to regulate unrule impluses and emotions.</li><li>Assertive communication is where the speaker maintains self-respect, expresses personal need, and defends their own rights without abusing or dominating the other party.</li><li>Collaboration considers all the important needs of the primary parties and develops a suitable solution.</li><li>Problem-solving pursues alternative solutions.</li><li>Empathy is the ability to share and understand others emotions.</li><li>Active listening.</li></ul>

Conflict resolution skills

This method works well for conflicts involving values and intense emotions. <ol><li>Engage with the other respectfully. Respect involves how you look at the other person, how you listen, your tone of voice, and word choices.</li><li>Listen fully until you understand the other side, the content of the other person’s ideas, what it means for them, and their feelings about it.</li><li>Verbalize your feelings, views, and needs. Assertive communication works well at this stage. However, this is not always necessary. When you make a statement, be brief and truthful, but avoid loaded words. Show your feelings.</li></ol>

The conflict resolution method

When two or more parties are willing to work on solving a contentious issue:<ol><li>Define the primary needs surrounding the conflict.</li><li>Brainstorm possible solutions.</li><li>Choose solutions that meet the needs of both parties.</li><li>Create an agenda delineating who will assume each task.</li><li>Implement the plan.</li><li>Evaluate the solutions and reevaluate if required.</li></ol>

Collaborative problem-solving

<ol><li>Create an open-door policy.</li><li>Appoint Ombudspersons - neutral or impartial managers who can help to resolve work-related disputes.</li><li>Internal peer mediation. Designated employees can act as mediators to help resolve conflict.</li><li>Professional mediators are impartial third parties who assist through a formal mediation process.</li><li>Peer review and employee appeals are used to avoid a union process.</li><li>Executive panels provide an opportunity for employees to present their claims to a panel of senior executives that will be objective and sympathetic.</li></ol>

Approaches to work through issues in work settings

<ul><li>The Two Dollar Game was developed to help employees learn the art of negotiation in a fun way.</li><li>Conflict Description Template created by the University of Iowa is intended to deal with conflict.</li><li>Use this workbook: Coping With Stress in the Workplace Workbook by Ester Leutenberg and John Liptak.</li><li>Consider online tools and resources for conflict resolution.</li><li>Role-play activity. Participants are presented with various workplace scenarios and encouraged to formulate assertive messages to initiate a discussion about the problem at hand.</li></ul>

Best activities, games, workbooks, and online tools

Can we seek a better understanding of conflict and transform its devastating effects? Let’s find out in this conflict resolution article.

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<ul><li>Rather than sending a withdrawal or rejection email, workers and employers are simply cutting off contact during the hiring process.</li><li>Ghosting is considered a bad practice for both companies and workers; no one likes being on the receiving end of it.</li><li>Yet its rise seems inexorable: digital hiring processes deluge companies with candidates, making replying to everyone hard.</li></ul>

Stuck In A Ghosting Spiral

One recent study of 1,500 global workers found that <a href="https://www.greenhouse.io/blog/key-learnings-from-the-2022-greenhouse-candidate-experience-report">75% of jobseekers</a> have been ghosted by a company after a job interview. Employers openly acknowledge that they do it; only <a href="https://www.indeed.com/lead/impact-of-covid-19-on-job-seeker-employer-ghosting">27% of US employers</a> surveyed by job listings site Indeed said they hadn’t ghosted a candidate in the past year.

The Findings

<ul><li>The rise in ghosting is coming from both workers and employers.</li><li>Much of the ghosting we’re seeing today may simply be the fact that someone just can’t get back to everyone.</li><li>The loss of in-person interviews may also be a factor in ghosting by both parties.</li><li>Job-search algorithms place the open positions right in front of workers, making impulse applications easier, resulting in a spike for recruiters.</li></ul>

Digital Hiring And The Spike In Applications

<ul><li>An explosion of candidates due to new digital recruiting may mean applicants find themselves waiting for emails that never come.</li><li>Market conditions may well mean that not replying to every lead or candidate is becoming more normalised.</li><li>But ghosting comes with downsides to both employers and candidates: it leaves a bad impression - likely ending a professional relationship before it's even begun.</li></ul>

The Consequences Of Increased Digital Hiring

Rather than sending a withdrawal or rejection email, workers and employers are simply cutting off contact during the hiring process. Are we stuck in a ‘ghosting’ spiral?

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Why workers and employers are ghosting each other

This book provides a great conversation for those in need of the mental motivation provided by this author. Filled with advice and personal exercises to help you unstick yourself from your self-sabotaging beliefs.

The Big Snooze will do everything it can to stop you from changing and growing, especially since you're attempting to obliterate the very identity that you and everyone else has come to know as 'you'.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

If you want to live a life you've never lived, you have to do things you've never done.

Most people are living an illusion based on someone else's beliefs.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

What other people think of you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

We only get to be in our bodies for a limited time, why not celebrate the journey instead of merely riding it out until its over?

Faith is having the audacity to believe in the not yet seen.

Forgiving isn't about being nice to them, its about being nice to yourself.

If you're serious about changing your life, you will find a way.If you're not, you'll find an excuse.

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.

Deciding is freedom.Indecision is torture.

One of the best things you can do to improve the world is to improve yourself.

An epiphany is a visceral understanding of something you already know.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'i'm possible.

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Packed with humor, inspiration, and advice, You Are a Badass is the #1 New York Times bestselling self-help book that teaches you how to get better without getting busted. In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up twenty-seven bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word, helping you to: Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want, Create a life you totally love. And create it NOW, and Make some damn money already. The kind you've never made before. By the end of You Are a Badass, you'll understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to use The Force to kick some serious ass.

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YOU ARE A BADASS IS THE SELF-HELP BOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES BUT DON'T WANT TO GET BUSTED DOING IT. In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bitesized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word, helping you to: - Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviours that stop you from getting what you want. - Create a life you totally love. And create it NOW! - Make some damn money already. The kind you've never made before. By the end of You Are a Badass, you'll understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to use The Force to kick some serious ass.

Jen Sincero is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Jen Sincero has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Jen Sincero's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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Rarely does a company sustain its global industry leadership for more than a few decades, and most that do so are very well-known global brands.Organizational longevity relates to how well a firm succeeds across different markets over time, irrespective of its original objectives and founders.

Being A Leading Company For Decades Isn't Easy

YKK stands for the Japanese zipper manufacturer Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, which roughly translates to Yoshida Company Limited. YKK, founded in 1934, manufactures and produces approximately 10 billion zippers a year.It has impressively, and quietly, remained the market leader for zipper sales for many decades, begging the question: What contributes to its success and longevity?

The YKK Mystery

Zippers are a specialty item that is not marketed directly to consumers yet make up an integral part of the piece of clothing, bags, luggage, or similar items.While the zipper industry is relatively obscure, it is also large, with annual sales in between $7 and 13 billion (U.S.), with a CAGR between 5.4% and 7.6%.

Making An Obscure Speciality Item

<ul><li>Do not fear failure; experience builds success/creates opportunities for employees.</li><li>Insist of quality in everything.</li><li>Build trust, transparency, and respect.</li><li>Failure is a good thing, and YKK believes that if the goals are set high, failure is inevitable.</li></ul>

Company Values

YKK goes to great lengths to connect with stakeholders on a local, community, and global level.A key part of stakeholder engagement is giving back to the community and operating in a sustainable fashion.By virtue of its corporate values, YKK is further ahead than most in integrating sustainability into all aspects of its business.

Commitment to Stakeholders

<ul><li class="ql-indent-1">YKK's financial statements reveal slow but steady growth through the years.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Dating back 20 years, the operating profits of the fastening business fluctuated between 11% and 16%.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">All of its employees participate in the ownership of the company as stockholders and receive dividends.</li></ul>

Private Ownership

<ul><li>One of YKK's core values is "insist on quality in everything," and, according to the company's own website, all of its business activities revolve around the assurance of quality.</li><li>Each YKK production site conducts various quality tests and regularly reports these to the headquarters in Japan.</li></ul>

Focus On Quality

Adopting new cultural customs, norms, and traditions means acquiring new cultural knowledge and experiences, and learning and using new languages.Focusing on local even manifests itself in different operations within one country. YKK successfully integrated its traditional Japanese values with those of the local southern U.S. culture at its plant in Macon, Georgia.

Being Global And Local

<ul><li>The YKK case illustrates that diversification may be a good business move but it can come with downsides and other risks.</li><li>Building a highly visible brand is conducive to staying on top or is it better to keep a low profile? The YKK story shows us that being visible to the public and garnering unwanted attention can be a risky thing. It also forces companies to take active political stances.</li></ul>

Diverse And Low Profile

How the Japanese manufacturer YKK has stayed at the top of its industry.

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Lessons in Longevity from an 88-Year-Old Zipper Company

At the same time, a person prepares and makes various decisions within the framework of his own official activity. Such work determines the activities of the manager, who personally makes decisions, and thus will shape the work of employees in accordance with the preparation and implementation of these or other decisions. Managerial decision-making should be based on scientific basics and methods.

Decision Making By The Manager

A management decision is a creative act of a management subject that establishes a group work plan in accordance with the effective resolution of an urgent problem based on knowledge of the objective laws of the functioning of a managed organization and analysis of data on its state. That is, MD is a choice that a manager must make in order to fulfill the duties due to his position.The purpose of MD is to ensure movement towards the tasks set for the organization. Also, one of the main factors for the effective achievement of established goals is the human factor.

Managerial Decision

First of all, the importance of the manager himself plays here - his personality, motivation, behavior, determination and other qualities. Another significant skill is the ability to form a team, organize and control the whole project "chain", in which place the qualities of a manager, leader are expressed to the maximum extent.

Managerial Decision #2

Systems thinking - the ability to look at the process from above, make a balanced goal setting, carry out real design, quickly implement a decision based on this data, which is in the directive.Delegation of authority and supervision of the execution of tasksOrganization and effective management of own processes and time: time-management, distribution of cases with weighted coefficients, separation of issues according to the ABC / XYZ method, the Eisenhower matrix, finishing things up to completion according to the GTD method.The Art of Negotiation + Successful Presentation Skill.

Essential Skills for an Effective Leader

Communication / support of subordinates / motivation (individual sample). Informative exchange, communication skills.Formation of a (new) / building (old) effective team (+ formation of a comfortable working atmosphere and corporate culture).Building the concept of KPI rewards / punishments (agreement on goals, KPI table).Conflict resolution. Analysis, hiring, retention and respect of employees.Manager's image / charisma / own style (actions, clothes) / responsibility (groundedness, self-made style).Effective implementation of meetings - both as an accomplice and moderator of the meeting.

Essential Skills for an Effective Leader #2

Decision making is directly related to purposeful human activity. In private life, any individual makes decisions about choosing a specialty, arraging a family, spending holidays, allocating a budget, etc.

The formation and selection of these decisions, as a rule, are made empirically: by logical thinking and intuition.

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Simone de Beauvoir, born in 1908, was an influential writer, feminist, social theorist and philosopher. She is known for her 1949 book, The Second Sex, which changed the way society at large thinks about the role of women. Beauvoir authored the Manifesto of the 343, which set the stage for legalising birth control and abortion in France. Beauvoir was also deeply engaged in politics and one of the original editors of the left-wing French publication Les Temps Modernes.

Simone de Beauvoir

<ul><li>Challenging the status quo. Beauvoir challenged societal expectations of women. As a secondary school teacher, she was fired from multiple jobs for teaching about feminism, morally corrupting the youth.</li><li>Embracing ambiguity. Beauvoir published the book Ethics of Ambiguity. Instead of focusing on one perspective, she recognised that social problems result from systemic and individual issues.</li><li>Celebrating intellectualism. Beauvoir embraced the intellectual quest of deriving knowledge from reason.</li></ul>

Simone de Beauvoir’s thinking strategies

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<li>What are topics you are passionate about? What areas would you like to contribute to changing minds and fostering innovation?</li>
<li>Write down public engagement skills you are comfortable with, such as writing, speaking, teaching, organising, and consider how you can use them to support causes.</li>
<li>Get more comfortable with ambiguity. Beauvoir wrote about ethics in ambiguous situations and balanced arguments in her work. </li>
<li>Practice inclusive thinking. Beauvoir always included the voices of people who were often excluded from intellectual conversations.</li>
</ul>

How to think like Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was an influential writer, feminist, social theorist, and philosopher. She is best known for her book "The Second Sex" which upended traditional notions of the role of women in society.

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Simone de Beauvoir: the power of intellectual advocacy

It's a one-of-a-kind journal based on Stoic principles, designed to help you reflect and journal not only more, but better.At worst, journaling can help get persistent worries out of your head and onto paper so you can get on with your day. At best, it can be transformational to your mindset by forcing you to really think deeply about the events in your life and how you are reacting to them.

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It can be described as a torrent of negative thought and associated emotion sparked by relatively innocuous triggers. Much of it is framed by what-if scenarios that give the imagination plenty of room to run free in the wilderness of negativity.This is particularly painful for leaders who are weighed down with a great deal of responsibility, and the duty to make decisions that have ripple effects in people's everyday lives.

Overthinking

Intuition works like a mental pattern matching game. It analyzes situations quickly with extant knowledge and evident context and offers a way forward quickly. Decision-making is based on existing knowledge and experience that isn't bogged down by time-intensive data research or analysis.This also takes away roadblocks we've set up in our minds that keep us from making clear-minded decisions - so it keeps us from overthinking decisions even when they are well-conceived.Intuition-based decision-making can't rule all the time. Use it in moderation, and where you feel it's appropriate.

Leverage the underestimated power of intuition

Sometimes, data-based decision-making can derail you. Maybe it's time to trust your gut.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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The Surprising “Disinhibition” Technique Is a Powerful Way to Stop Overthinking, According to Harvard Research

You can change how your brain works by how you move your body. And when you're looking to resolve a tricky conflict of any type, you're better off doing it while moving around. Research shows that locomotion increases both the motivation and the likelihood to resolve interpersonal conflict.

Physical movement spurs mental movement

In the human conflict-resolution world, we tend to spend the vast majority of our time going deep into the analysis of our problems and very little time moving.Thinking about your needs and position and the needs and position of your negotiating partner is important, but people have a tendency to get stuck at this analysis stage. Literally getting up and taking a walk together helps break this impasse. Physical movement jogs mental movement. When our bodies are active, repetitive thinking patterns lose some of their grips and new solutions occur to us.

The best way to resolve conflicts

The best way to resolve professional (and romantic) conflicts is on your feet. 

The Best Way to End a Fight, According to Science: Take a Walk Together

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