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Checklist For Employment Agreements
This template is the beginning of the employment agreement process. Use it to ensure you've included all of the necessary information in an employment agreement before you commit to hiring an employee.
Tags: Agreement, Mansueto Ventures
Tools & templates 2000-12-12
An Evolutionary Approach to Innovation
Can biology teach people anything about innovation? The essence of Darwinism is that progress is created by adaptation to changed conditions. What starts as a random mutation can also spread to become the norm through a process of natural selection. The same is surely true with innovation. New ideas are...
Tags: Innovation, Mansueto Ventures, Leadership, Strategy, Management
White papers
In Search of... Innovation
Innovation is the lifeblood of growth and success. Yet trying to come up with a new idea, one that stands the test of time, is a daunting task - to say the least. The landscape is littered with ideas that look good on paper but just did not succeed. While...
Tags: Innovation, Mansueto Ventures, Leadership, Strategy, Management
White papers
If He's so Smart? Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation
Innovation is at the heart of Joseph Schumpeter's idea of creative destruction, for example: the process of "Industrial mutation" that keeps markets healthy and progressive. Management theorists embraced the notion in the intervening decades, and a stream of academic papers and books promoting innovation as the critical element of business...
Tags: Innovation, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Mansueto Ventures, Leadership, Strategy, Management
White papers 2004-01-01
The Culture of Innovation
In strategy meetings throughout the world, "ideation" sessions are taking place. Their goal? Brainstorming the next big hit. But how does one latch on to a new idea? And how do you propel your organization forward to make it receptive to the change management required to bring new ideas to...
Tags: Innovation, Mansueto Ventures, Leadership, Strategy, Change Management, Management, Tools & Techniques
White papers
Don't Confuse Creativity With Innovation
There's widespread confusion between creativity the ability to see things differently and have original ideas and innovation the ability to make new ideas actually happen. Creativity is thinking of new and appropriate ideas whereas innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas within an organization. In other words creativity is...
Tags: Innovation, Creativity, Mansueto Ventures, Leadership, Strategy, Management
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The 10 Faces of Innovation
Innovation is all about people. It is about the roles people can play, the hats they can put on, the personas they can adopt. It is not just about the luminaries of innovation like Thomas Edison. It is about the unsung heroes who work on the front lines of entrepreneurship...
Tags: Innovation, Mansueto Ventures, Leadership, Strategy, Management
White papers 2005-10-01
Expand Your Innovation Horizons
Too many companies emphasize low-risk innovations that aim to incrementally extend their existing businesses. Most innovations fail and it's easy to see why. They are expected. They are unimaginative, boring, and fail to excite or fill any real need. Indeed, most so-called innovations aren't innovative. They are mundane line extensions...
Tags: Innovation, Mansueto Ventures, Leadership, Strategy, Management
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A Second Act for CRM
CRM was sold as a foolproof way to spin everyday customer interactions into strategic gold by sifting through mountains of data, identifying hidden patterns, and delivering insights that would help executives sharpen their sales plans. Instead, CRM turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments of the dot-com bubble....
Tags: CRM, Mansueto Ventures, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Sales
White papers 2005-03-01
Canning Spam
Spam - unsolicited bulk e-mail, usually selling something - has been around almost as long as the commercial Internet. But lately it's spreading faster than a bad cold in a kindergarten classroom. Spam wastes employee time - about 5 seconds per message, by IDC's estimate. That may sound miniscule, but...
Tags: Message, Employee, Mansueto Ventures, Internet, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Security, Spam And Phishing
White papers 2003-05-01
How to Stay on the Move ... When the World Is Slowing Down
People and companies who think big don't want to scale back on their aspirations. They do, however, have to rethink their strategies, tactics, and timetables. What happens when the going gets tough? Tough-minded leaders keep going, because they understand that most of their rivals will give up - leaving them...
Tags: Aspiration, Mansueto Ventures, Leadership, Strategy, Management
White papers 2001-06-01
Attention, Class!!!: 16 Ways to Be a Smarter Teacher
Teaching is different from giving a speech in a companywide meeting or giving orders to a subordinate. That's not teaching; that's dictating. Telling people what to do doesn't guarantee that they will learn enough to think for themselves in the future. Instead, it may mean that they'll depend on an...
Tags: Stop, Mansueto Ventures
White papers 2001-11-01
Andy Pearson Finds Love
This paper discusses a man who, now in his mid-70s, has transformed himself into a new kind of boss. The old person ran PepsiCo Inc. for nearly 15 years, driving revenues from $1 billion to $8 billion. Back then, he was known for his skills at bringing people down to...
Tags: Boss, Mansueto Ventures, Operational Accounting, Finance
White papers 2001-07-01
The State of Stem Cell Research
Californians are hoping that stem cell research will do for them what the invention of the car did for Michigan. At the most basic level, stem cells are primitive cells that are undifferentiated and aren't programmed to become a certain type, such as a blood or brain cell. In theory,...
Tags: Stem-cell, Cell, Mansueto Ventures, Californians
White papers 2005-02-01
To Build Up Innovation, Break Down Your Networks
Breaking networks is the only way to prepare an organization to take innovation efforts beyond mere ideas. A person can train an individual about what an innovation is and why it demands different behavior, but he can't retrain an organization simply by training the individuals within it. The individuals may...
Tags: Innovation, Network, Organization, Mansueto Ventures, Leadership, Strategy, Management
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Is Innovation in Your Organizational DNA?
Organizational DNA and biological DNA have some similarities. They both are difficult to observe directly, and have powerful impacts on behavior. But there are crucial differences, too. Biological DNA is inherited at birth, and cannot be changed. Organizational DNA is created early in life, and can be changed, albeit with...
Tags: Innovation, DNA, Mansueto Ventures, Biotechnology
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Profit-And-Loss Projection
Projection of your sales and expenses is the first step toward creating a cash flow budget that your business can rely on. This Profit and Loss (P&L) projection is not intended to be a detailed financial statement. It is intended to act as a guide to help you forecast your...
Tags: P&L, Projection, Mansueto Ventures, Sales Strategy, Sales
Tools & templates 2000-03-20
Prohibited Activities (Standards Of Conduct)
Some employees just don't understand the concepts of respect and responsibility. For these employees, it could be necessary to spell out which activities are prohibited in your workplace. Use this sample template to help get you started on your own standards of conduct list.
Tags: Employee, Standards, Mansueto Ventures, Quality, Business Operations
Tools & templates 2001-01-18
Authorization, Waiver, And Release Of Liability For Employment-Related Investigations
The Fair Credit Reporting Act applies to criminal, background, and sexual harassment investigations performed by an outside agency or attorney. If you intend to have an outside agency or attorney investigate a job applicant, make sure the applicant signs this form.
Tags: Authorization, Agency, Attorney, Mansueto Ventures, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Harassment, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Marketing
Tools & templates 2001-01-18
Personnel Update Emergency Contact Form
Using standard template like this one will ensure that employee management does not become a haphazard activity. This template will help you track your employees' emergency contact information.
Tags: Emergency, Mansueto Ventures
Tools & templates 2001-01-18
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