The Three Gaps of Creativity: Effort, Skill, and Quality
The great surprise for people with good ideas is the gap between how an idea feels in their minds and how it feels when they try to put the idea to work.
The great surprise for people with good ideas is the gap between how an idea feels in their minds and how it feels when they try to put the idea to work.
Policies and procedures tell your employees, partners, vendors, and customers how your system operates. With changing regulations and expectations, a static library is not enough.
I have been thinking a lot about why innovation fails. Not about why supposedly innovative new products fail, because there are multiple reasons for that.
By 2025, nearly 25 percent of the U.S. population is expected to be 60 years of age or older.
Grace Swanson, vice president of human capital at Accumold, a leading micro-molding plastics injection company located just outside Des Moines, Iowa, knows the field of standards well.
In our April 13, 2018, episode of QDL, we talked about anti-hacker robots, data privacy, and new product introduction.
Too much of a good thing brings out its downside. Ever had too much team time? It makes you long for a solo vacation on a desert island.
Limiting first-year medical residents to 16-hour work shifts, compared to “flexing” them to allow for some longer shifts, generally makes residents more satisfied with their training and work-life balance.
You can’t see well without lenses that can focus, whether those lenses are in your eye or the microscope you peer through.
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