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What Can Business Learn From Dance

Everything you learn on the dance floor is valuable off the dance floor - especially on an innovation team. Hygiene, attentiveness, self-awareness, trust, mechanics, style, mistakes, gentleness, community, diversity, interchangeability, and elasticity. The learning never stops. Leaders, meet your partner where they are!

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Approachability Menu

Don’t rely on HR to define and govern feedback. Own it. Conduct it yourself. Be approachable. Groom it in others. Isolate feedback into three communication channels: email etiquette, meeting etiquette, and deliverable contribution. Neutralize personality conflict. Ask and negotiate “What do you want me to do differently?”

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Improve Your Culture’s Speed

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your speed? Consider trust, ambiguity, interruptions, fatigue, burnout, bottlenecks, egos, hero mentality, simplicity, complexity, silos, bureaucracy, meeting gridlock, and email overload. Fix your culture. Fix your Speed.

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Improve Your Culture’s Elasticity

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your elasticity and resilience? Consider idle work, idle workers, a balanced innovation pipeline, spontaneous alternatives for stakeholders, and if you blame a hiring decision. Fix your methodology. Fix your elasticity.

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