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How leaders can turn obstacles into innovation

Times of crisis can trigger innovation—if leaders can guide the perception of a crisis, and if leaders understand how each team member responds to them. Study Abstract — Although a crisis provides room for creativity, organizations often suffer from creativity deficits in such a situation. Indeed, threat-rigidity theory suggests that an employee-experienced crisis may hinder employee creativity.

Want your distributed workforce to thrive? A new study reveals how leaders can make it possible.

Whether your distributed workforce engages in real-time or asynchronous work—or both—research points to three systems that support it all. Study abstract: Collaboration is critical to organizations and difficult when work is distributed. Prior research has indicated that when individuals are distributed, organizations respond by structuring their work to decrease reciprocal interdependence, reduce the complexity of tasks that individuals perform, or accept moderate inefficiencies.

A new study reveals how to solve perhaps the single biggest problem for work leaders

Ah, the “non-routine problem.” It’s arguably the single biggest type of problem one can run into at work. New research points to a solution. Research Summary — Solving non-routine problems—problems for which current organizational, recurrent action patterns do not offer a predetermined, effective solution—can be an important source of value creation.