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Is The Push For Profitability Erasing True Innovation In Your Organization?
Even though we talk improving profitability, and our customers benefit from the profitable new ideas we help them generate, or generate for them, there are still plenty of innovative ideas which, when…
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To Innovate, Observe The Tripwires, Then Trip Them On Purpose.
Everyone who’s worked in teams and enterprises for any length of time knows that there are tripwires everywhere that people take great pains not to trip. They know that if they do…
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Are You Silencing Your Radicals?
In every company, there are troublemakers. These are the radicals, those who don’t toe the party line, they use different processes, they don’t go through channels, they might say or do things…
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It’s the “crazy” ideas that change everything
Imagine if I went to my economics teacher in 1987 and explained any one of these seemingly crazy ideas to them: I’m going to ask a ton of brilliant authors and historians…
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Do You Let Your People Go There?
Next Time, Really Put Everything Is On The Table. Go There. The Hope: Your leaders take whatever risks they need to in order to get the job done. The Reality: Your leaders…
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Culture Shock: Where Does Innovation Fit In Your Organization?
Is Your Culture Open To Innovation? “They shut it down.” He whispered the phrase to me reverently, with a touch of sadness. My colleague just met with me over lunch to tell…
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How To Build a Culture of Innovation in Your Organization
Were we ready to build a culture of innovation? “They shut it down.” He whispered the phrase to me reverently, with a touch of sadness. My colleague just met with me over…
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Forget VR and AR: Focus On Manipulated Reality (MR) Instead
What Will Reality Be? How do you predict the future? There are many ways, of course, but here are two which seem to work well for some things: You take something that…
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The Creativity Story
A Creativity Framework Once upon a time, business leaders were constantly juggling problems like aggressive competition, demanding customers, disgruntled employees, and unsatisfied shareholders. They relied on a combination of the usual practices…
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Your Grandkids Won’t Need to Know How to Drive
Near Future, No One Will Need To Know How To Drive I was talking with my sons the other day about driving – I have one son who is learning to drive…
