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The Einstellung Effect: Unlocking Your Potential To Deliver Breakthrough Success

Rich Gee Group

This effect is especially pronounced in high-performance environments, where the pressure to maintain success can reinforce reliance on tried-and-tested methods. The 4-Minute Mile Roger Bannister, the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, is a classic example of overcoming mental barriers and the Einstellung Effect.

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How to Nourish Your Team’s Creativity

Harvard Business Review

CEOs in a recent poll agreed that creativity is the most important skill a leader can have. Every leader is hoping for that next great idea, yet many executives still treat creative thinking as antithetical to productivity and control. One manages for creativity.” What seems less clear is how to actually cultivate it.

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The Emotions That Make Us More Creative

Harvard Business Review

Artists and scientists throughout history have remarked on the bliss that accompanies a sudden creative insight. More poetically, Virginia Woolf once observed, “Odd how the creative power brings the whole universe at once to order.” ” But what about before such moments of creative insight?

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The Making of Legends

Strategy Driven

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Do Your Innovators Have the Right Muscle Memory?

Harvard Business Review

David Foster Wallace provided an eloquent description of how muscle memory contributes to "kinesthetic sense" in a brilliant New York Times article about Roger Federer in 2006. That's all well and good, you are probably thinking, but what does this have to do with innovation? But there is a discipline to innovation.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

1) Create a Learning Environment -. When human learning slows down, people tend to lose creative and problem solving capacity. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Your dedication to creating a remarkable environment is crucial.

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The Traits of Advanced Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Welcome to the dawning era of social innovation, in which more people aspire to tackle old problems in new ways with new tools. He had a goal.

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