Potential Can Trump Proven Value, Researchers Find
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Researchers at Stanford and Harvard have found that when weighing someone with great achievement versus someone with great potential, we often tilt toward the potential.
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Researchers at Stanford and Harvard have found that when weighing someone with great achievement versus someone with great potential, we often tilt toward the potential.
It’s a false construct to divide the world into the creatives and the non-creatives, says IDEO founder David Kelley. He helps business people “turn fear into familiarity, and they surprise themselves. That transformation is amazing.”
In her new book “inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity,” Stanford’s Tina Seelig explores how to mine and unleash the capacity for creativity and innovation.
A new book explains the surprising extent to which activist communities can influence the adoption of radical innovations.
A new BusinessWeek article raises the question of whether Silicon Valley -- and, more generally, America's environment for innovation in information technology -- is losing its edge.
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Here's an intriguing finding from a new working paper: Companies that use modern management best practices tend to also use less energy. A team of researchers from Stanford, the London School of Economics and Cambridge University studied a sample of mid-sized manufacturing companies in the U.K.
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