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How to Encourage Employee Creativity: A Preliminary Systematic Literature Review of Organizational Resources

Employee creativity is a necessary component of organizational innovation, a driver of positive business outcomes. How effectively organizations promote creativity may depend, among other things, on the organizational resources utilized.

The Building of the Man Behind the Thought Leader – An Inquiry into the Life of John Couris

John Couris, Tampa General Hospital’s president and Chief Executive Officer, shared segments of his upbringing and early life experiences.

A Path to Authentic Leadership: Interviews with Jeffrey E. Johnson

Using a phenomenological approach to narrative research, the essence of Mr. Jeffrey Johnson’s lived experiences was explained, supporting a finding that his life stories, crucibles, and leadership style reflected those of an authentic leader.

Small Technology Business (STB) Failure Prevention Strategies Using Potential Failure Modes

Proactive strategies to reduce small business failures improve their growth and sustainability. US Labor statistics show that small businesses faced a considerable decline in their survival and that statistics remained steady for decades, indicating the need for in-depth research to find the gap and address the survival of future businesses.

A.I. Is Changing Leadership — and Executives Need to Adapt

Artificial intelligence is one of the most fascinating developments that the business world is facing. In the right hands, it could be positive; while in the wrong hands, it could be devastating.

How the Soft-Side of Change Can Better Prepare the Hearts and Minds of Employees?

Change has been posited as important today by some of the top journals such as Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Muma Business Review, Leader to Leader, and MIT Sloan Management Review, but what exactly does the change mean to you?

Innovative Companies’ Approach to Innovation Strategy

There is growing interest in the global marketplace on innovation. For example, Tesla dominates Electric Vehicle (EV) sales but is losing market share to more affordable EVs from competitors, including Ford and Hyundai.

Thematic Narrative Research to Explore the Traits that Help Shape an Innovator, Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist

This study outlines the use of a phenomenological interviewing process, as defined by Irving Seidman (Seidman, 2019), to explore the traits that contribute to shaping an individual as an innovator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

Crowdsourced Online Biometric Studies: Is the juice worth the squeeze?

While promising, online biometric studies with crowdsourced participants have vagaries that can limit success. This paper shares researcher experience with biometric online data collection and a study that compared the differences of online and lab-based eye tracking (ET) and facial expression (FE) data.