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Bob Rosenfeld, founder of Idea Connection Systems Inc., is a chemist by trade yet he has spent the past three decades deciphering how the human element relates to innovation in the workplace.
Sure, he understands to the nth degree the periodic table of elements. That's one reason he was hired by the Eastman Kodak Co. as a photographic scientist in 1970.
He even asked a professor at Drake University if a periodic table of people existed. He was told no, don't be silly.
Rosenfeld, however, believed the absence of said table didn't mean one couldn't eventually exist.
"There's got to be a way to describe people," he thought.
That concept has been at the heart of his working-world endeavors ever since.
Rosenfeld was keenly aware that not everyone can work together with the same efficiency. And that not everyone is meant to...