Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Grace is a tough concept to sell in today’s environment. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Pisano (PublicAffairs, 2019) The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Gathering information and different perspectives may actually inhibit innovation. It may actually undermine performance and true creativity. Therefore, collaboration involving lots of idea generation from multiple sources does not work for many projects. People can let others take the responsibility. Talk openly.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Other successful companies build upon social interaction to develop innovative concepts leading to disruptive product and service developments. An open office environment. Cubicles and closed door offices do little to help foster teamwork and creativity. . Free flowing communication. Most Job Seekers Searchable Online.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Creativity and innovation are not among them. We know how some factors affect creativity and innovation, but we’re only just beginning to understand some of the more complex relationships. Thinking Creatively. Creativity researchers usually make a distinction between creativity and innovation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To flourish in today’s business environment, organizations and individuals need to transition from the outdated Alpha system to the fast-growing Beta paradigm. Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. I call it Alpha. ed performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

How can you ensure that your company has innovative teams? Based on our experience building innovation teams and consulting for Fortune 500 companies on setting up innovation processes, a key component that has proven to be paramount but consistently neglected is psychological assessment. Why does this even matter?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the Economist review of our book, The Innovator's DNA , the reviewer wondered whether genius-level innovators such as Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs challenge the idea that working adults can really learn how to think differently and become innovators. Innovators excel at connecting the unconnected.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

If a marketing team is charged with creating an innovative new advertising campaign, for example, a prestigious leader can release the constraints on team members and encourage them to think outside the box. This creates a safe environment where team members feel respected and free to innovate and generate creative solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. But what about younger people just entering a traditional office environment? It's about information exchange, resource exchange, idea generation and on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

It's possible to shape an environment to encourage creativity and collaboration. If your office space is dampening creativity and your company's facilities department isn't a resource, there is hope. If your office space is dampening creativity and your company's facilities department isn't a resource, there is hope.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. Over the past three decades, we have researched how leaders motivate their employees to come up with creative solutions to organizational problems.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

When it comes to creativity, organizations are a lot like people. They have no problem generating ideas, including some that are potentially useful and novel. Furthermore, they are also generally able to access creative ideas generated by others. HBR Must Reads on Innovation. Innovation Book.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. A New Name for an Old Method.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

These people are good at dealing with developments in the organization’s environment. They provide vision, strategic direction and outside-the-box thinking to create new organizational forms and generate future growth. The innovator: leadership as creative idea generation. Kate’s story had a happy ending.

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