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* 6 Ideas About Creating Organizations That Value Ideas

You're Not the Boss of Me

Perhaps too, they will be more likely to use their creative juices to pre-empt organizational issues before they arise. Build a Safe Environment for Idea sharing ~ putting forth a new, possibly even bizarre idea takes a lot of courage. I think we all know that. * Originally posted in November 2012.

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But Does Collaboration Really Work?

Lead Change Blog

It may actually undermine performance and true creativity. Therefore, collaboration involving lots of idea generation from multiple sources does not work for many projects. Collaboration can promote laziness because success is not any individual’s direct responsibility. People can let others take the responsibility.

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6 Ideas About Creating Organizations That Value Ideas

You're Not the Boss of Me

Perhaps too, they will be more likely to use their creative juices to pre-empt organizational issues before they arise. Build a Safe Environment for Idea sharing ~ putting forth a new, possibly even bizarre idea takes a lot of courage. I think we all know that.

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The New World of Beta Curation

Strategy Driven

To flourish in today’s business environment, organizations and individuals need to transition from the outdated Alpha system to the fast-growing Beta paradigm.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. I call this one Beta.

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What the Research Tells Us About Team Creativity and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

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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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Continuous quality improvement within your own operation. Values which benefit other aspects of the company operation: Quality improved on behalf of the overall organization. Creative new ideas generated.