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Pride Investment Portfolio
by Julian Keith Loren
+1.510.396.0888
jkl@digiratti.com
www.linkedin.com/in/juliankeithloren

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Seeing where individuals invest their pride
can be pretty easy.
GO TEAM!
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While pride investment varies widely,
most of us are comfortable in disclosing our
“Pride Investment Portfolio.”
I’m very proud to be
an Irish, Rastafarian,
Vegan, Republican,
Hockey Fan.
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When hiring, it can be useful to look for
Pride Investments across 5 categories:
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When hiring, it can be useful to look for
Pride Investments across 5 categories:
Pride in Self
SELF
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When hiring, it can be useful to look for
Pride Investments across 5 categories:
Pride in
Association
with the
Organization
SELF COMPANY
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When hiring, it can be useful to look for
Pride Investments across 5 categories:
Pride in
Association
with
Admired
Leaders
SELF COMPANY LEADERS
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When hiring, it can be useful to look for
Pride Investments across 5 categories:
Pride in
the Team of
Co-Workers
SELF COMPANY LEADERS TEAM
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When hiring, it can be useful to look for
Pride Investments across 5 categories:
“Artisanal”
Pride in
Work
Product
SELF COMPANY LEADERS TEAM WORK
PRODUCT
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The goal is to ascertain the relative levels of
Pride Investment in various categories,
rather than absolute levels.
SELF COMPANY LEADERS TEAM WORK
PRODUCT
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Some examples:
SELF COMPANY LEADERS TEAM WORK
PRODUCT
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Some examples:
You might look for a Salesperson with strong
“Pride Investments” in Self, Co., and Leaders
categories.
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Some examples:
You might look for a Salesperson with strong
“Pride Investments” in Self, Co., and Leaders
categories.
I love this company,
I admire the executive team,
and I’m the best sales person
who ever walked this Earth.
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Some examples:
If you are hiring someone for a highly-
repetitive, non-creative position, you might
look for much lower Self Pride investment.
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Some examples:
If you are hiring someone for a highly-
repetitive, non-creative position, you might
look for much lower Self Pride investment.
I will always follow instructions,
and have tremendous loyalty to
this company.
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Why is the Pride Investment Portfolio useful
for Innovation Managers?
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Why is the Pride Investment Portfolio useful
for Innovation Managers?
Top Innovators
have a unique
(and problematic)
way of “Investing Pride.”
So what?
I’m a genius!
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Typical Pride Investment Portfolio for a
Top Innovator
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What is the problem?
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What is the problem?
To Human Resources (H.R.) professionals
in your company, this will look
“Dissociative.”
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What is the problem?
The Top Innovators that you need
may fail personality and
psychological testing.
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Common Solution
Your
H.R.
Top Innovator Innovation
(a.k.a.
Talent Pool Team
“Top Innovator
Filter”)
Hire as Contractors/
Consultants
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Common Solution
Contractors are not expected to
have long-term loyalty to the
Your
H.R.executive
Top Innovator company or Innovation
(a.k.a.
management, and often by-pass
Talent Pool Team
“Top Innovator
H.R. screening.
Filter”)
Hire as Contractors/
Consultants
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Is there a better solution?
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Is there a better solution?
Top Innovators are “Associative”
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Is there a better solution?
But with successful innovation
teams and specific accomplishments
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Is there a better solution?
Rather than with the company
and the executive team.
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Top Innovator Outlook
I’ll work at a big company, if it I get
bigger, more-challenging projects.
I’ll stay here as long as the
work is interesting.
Shannon, Pacho & I created some amazing
products 5 years ago. We’re all excited about
joining this company, because we get to work
together again.
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Top Innovator Value
HUGE
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Top Innovator Value
HUGE
Which is one reason that we have
a “War for Talent”
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What are your chances of winning
the “War for Talent” …
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What are your chances of winning
the “War for Talent”
if you apply standards
that were created for personnel in
non-creative, highly-repetitive roles …
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What are your chances of winning
the “War for Talent”
if you apply standards
that were created for personnel in
non-creative, highly-repetitive roles
to personnel in highly-creative,
non-repetitive roles?
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Are there other practices that are keeping
you from creating a highly-effective
innovation organization?
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Join the discussion!
Be part of the solution!
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If you are interested in participating in
round-tables or collaborative workshops on
…
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If you are interested in participating in
round-tables or collaborative workshops on
• Innovation Culture,
• Organization Optimization for Innovation Effectiveness,
• Innovation Strategy,
• or other Innovation Management topics, …
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If you are interested in participating in
round-tables or collaborative workshops on
• Innovation Culture,
• Organization Optimization for Innovation Effectiveness,
• Innovation Strategy,
• or other Innovation Management topics,
Please contact the
at collaborate@innomgmt.com
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More thoughts, models, and tales to follow …
Julian Keith Loren
+1.510.396.0888
jkl@digiratti.com
www.linkedin.com/in/juliankeithloren
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Please send comments to
jkl@digiratti.com
THANK YOU!
THANKS TO:
∙ Dr. Monika Hamori, IE Business School, for valuable feedback on an early
version of the Pride Investment Portfolio.
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