Coaching Tip

JANUARY 4, 2011

Here are some resolutions to help small or mid-sized businesses innovate in 2011. . Be proactive in 2011. . Resolve to take the proverbial bull by the horns in 2011. Sell off or discard any asset that won't work hard for you in 2011. . Innovation is creative insights applied in a practical manner to your business.

Innovation 113

Innovation Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 113

Coaching Tip

MARCH 15, 2011

All it takes is the desire to be innovative and creative in tackling a problem. The lifeblood of creative entrepreneurship is collaborative communication with those around you: your colleagues, employees, customers, friends and family. . Entrepreneurship.

Pharmaceuticals 84

Pharmaceuticals Creativity Long-term Power 84

Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Effective organization design creates connections among the many competing objectives of a large company – balancing global and local authority, setting up good, creative conflict. There are boundaries, but you can reach across them – and good creative work happens when boundaries are broken.

Development 112

Development Bureaucracy Globalization Middle Management 112

Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native." But the book also introduces the idea of a distinct "ethos" in creative cultures, which Cowen admits is hard to define for an economist. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 30, 2011.

Globalization 84

Globalization Crisis Creativity Short-term 84

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 16, 2011

Exercising creative thinking and discretionary behavior could be the basis for wise decision making for their stakeholders. . Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 17, 2011. CEOs across the country want to make sure the economy is growing robustly before they commit to new hiring.

Real Estate 95

Real Estate GDP Uncertainty Crisis 95

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 7, 2011

Several of the book's contributors, particularly artists and architects, make solid arguments for the importance of unmediated experiences to the creative process. Source: The Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2011. In the end, the most striking essays in "Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?"

Sample 112

Sample Newsletter Globalization Technology 112

Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

They were wild geysers of creative energy. There is nothing neat and efficient about creativity. This is why managing the creative process is so difficult. Sources: "Creation Myth" by Malcolm Gladwell and "Innovative Consumption" by James Surowiecki in The New Yorker, May 16, 2011. Venturesome Consumers.

Creativity 95

Creativity Process Wilde Innovation 95