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		<title>To Get the Right Match, Start with the Right Batch</title>
		<link>http://www.art-cm.com/2010/08/to-get-the-right-match-start-with-the-right-batch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leon Tonkonogy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovative organizations cannot sustain their achievements without fresh ideas and new approaches that are often brought in by new hires.  Companies that foster innovation need not just highly skilled workforce; they need highly engaged employees – people who love to work there, who are motivated to be creative, and whose personal values fit well the organizational culture. Finding the “right” people for the organization is a challenge that goes through all stages of a recruitment process.  However, if the initial step of generating applicants fails to bring these "right" people into the mix, the whole hiring process may prove fruitless.]]></description>
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		<title>Are We Prepared to Innovate?</title>
		<link>http://www.art-cm.com/2010/07/are-we-prepared-to-innovate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Fischer Baumgartner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time to stop treating our creative thinkers like kooky grown-up children and start respecting the deep practice and education they bring to their work.  It’s time to become one of them.]]></description>
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		<title>Questions: Fuel for Creativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Fischer Baumgartner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deepest organizational learning occurs when the status quo is held up to constant questioning. Organizations seeking greater innovation capacity should abandon their expert stance and instead, adopt a questioning-and-discovery oriented point of view, in which nothing is accepted at face value, and healthy skepticism is the norm.]]></description>
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		<title>Cultures of Innovation and Global Cultural Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Fischer Baumgartner</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.art-cm.com/?p=698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an innovative culture, high cultural intelligence (CQ) is present, valued and nurtured.  The economic demands on organizations to become laboratories of innovation will require workforces made up of individuals possessing high CQ.  As high CQ becomes more and more valued, and in turn becomes part of business school training, the wider culture will begin to find greater flexibility along the Hofstede's cultural dimensions over time.]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Fit: Considerations Before Interviewing</title>
		<link>http://www.art-cm.com/2009/08/cultural-fit-considerations-before-interviewing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leon Tonkonogy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.art-cm.com/?p=483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Something feels broken in our current recruiting system. Research tells us that firm success depends upon having the "right" workforce, emphasizing the alignment of corporate cultural values between organizations and their employees. However, companies invite candidates to interviews based on a system of keyword matching, looking for technical skills and previous experience, leaving out cultural fit considerations to the face-to-face meetings. But what are the chances that, under the current system, those "right" people will even get invited?]]></description>
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		<title>Competitive Advantage: Small Firm Flexibility vs. Big Firm Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://www.art-cm.com/2009/07/competitive-advantage-small-firm-flexibility-vs-big-firm-sustainability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Fischer Baumgartner</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.art-cm.com/?p=458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In unstable environments, there is no sustainable competitive advantage, only multiple temporary competitive advantages.  If this is true, small-to-mid-sized firms may be the big earners of our time.]]></description>
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		<title>Radical Innovation: The Prodigal Mandate</title>
		<link>http://www.art-cm.com/2009/07/radical-innovation-the-prodigal-mandate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Fischer Baumgartner</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.art-cm.com/?p=408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A 2007 McKinsey Global Survey revealed that 70 percent of corporate leaders call innovation one of their top three priorities.  They believe that breakthrough (or radical) innovation will have the greatest affect on corporate performance.  The report shows that these leaders agree -- "innovation is the best strategic decision for sustainable competitive advantage."  Yet these same leaders report that strategies for spurring innovation in their companies elude them.  Too many barriers exist.  Why?  ]]></description>
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		<title>Team Selection Protocol: Challenge Yourself</title>
		<link>http://www.art-cm.com/2009/07/team-selection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leon Tonkonogy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.art-cm.com/?p=352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not easy to change our natural inclination to seek out similarity. The process starts with moving away from the unconscious urge to seek for likeness and toward the conscious acceptance of dissimilarity.  In addition to finding team members who differ from you in terms of education, ethnicity, geographic origin, etc., try to also find team members among people that are multidimensional and cross-trained in different areas. These folks possess ‘associative fluency,’ a quality that allows them to make connections about ideas and applications, rather that "tunneling" into specific domains when a wider view is needed.]]></description>
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		<title>Dynamic Leadership: the Yin &amp; Yang of Managing</title>
		<link>http://www.art-cm.com/2009/07/dynamic-leadership-the-yin-yang-of-managing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.art-cm.com/2009/07/dynamic-leadership-the-yin-yang-of-managing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Fischer Baumgartner</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.art-cm.com/?p=281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a business owner, you make decisions every day.  You want to see your company grow and succeed.  By staying aware of the potential energy dynamic opposition provides, you make sure you bring all of yourself to your work, leave no stone unturned in your decision making, and model values of learning, discovery and creativity to your entire organization.]]></description>
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		<title>In Search of the &#8220;ah ha&#8221; Moment: Creativity is About Connecting</title>
		<link>http://www.art-cm.com/2009/06/in-search-of-the-ah-ha-moment-creativity-is-about-connecting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Fischer Baumgartner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever experienced an “ah ha” moment?  It’s what you feel when insight strikes, when a solution to a tough problem suddenly occurs to you, or when a great idea hits you seemingly “out of the blue.”  Behavioral scientists have been studying this phenomenon for over a century.  Recent research indicates that this creative [...]]]></description>
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