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Innovation and Talent Retention

At the beginning of this year when the markets were not being kind to our financial services clients, we admit we were concerned that the crisis would relegate spending on innovation programs for relatively junior employees to the long list of “necessary” cuts. It didn’t. In fact, our clients have expanded the number of programs they run. Their reasoning is sound though it may not be obvious.

Much has been written this year about the importance of innovation in a downturn. Those firms that continue to invest in strategic innovation…

When Do We Think?

Here’s an interesting juxtaposition of data that suggests why we’re not as creative as we’d like to be.

The New York Times published a fantastic infographic, How Different Groups Spend Their Day, that can keep a data junkie like me entertained for hours. The chart shows the results from the American Time Use Survey that asks thousands of Americans how they spend every minute of their day.

You can break down the data to view only certain types of people, e.g., specific…