Posts Tagged As Compensation

Build a Learning Organization: Embedding Failure Into the Culture

For the longest time business and military leaders wouldn’t dare utter the word failure in front of their organizations.  For many the credo was that failure wasn’t an option.  Times have certainly changed but many organizations are just scratching the surface in addressing the difficult issues surrounding failure.

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MattHunt.co Blog : Leadership, Innovation, and Failure – Most Popular Posts of 2012

So last week the MattHunt.co Blog officially turned six months old and I wanted to offer a quick thank you to everyone for your support and encouragement along the way.  It will be a busy next few weeks in January with a couple of events and a slight redesign to the blog (there will be more details coming shortly).

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Risk vs. Reward – How Compensation, Career Path, and Employment Stability Drive Innovation

For the better part of the last decade I had focused my career on driving innovation for Best Buy, a Fortune 100 retailer, and the undeniable king in the consumer electronics category.  When I joined the company I was focused on identifying innovative products and services that were specifically tailored for the needs of their newly identified customer segments.  I then joined a team where we focused on creating new concept and prototype stores and lead the team responsible for the Escape concept store in Chicago.  Eventually we shut down our two concept stores and I worked to reshape the team into an internal capability that could deliver new prototype stores (i.e. Best Buy Mobile), new retail models (i.e. Best Buy Express), and identify new growth product and service categories (i.e. Personal Transportation, Home Energy Management, and Health & Fitness).

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