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Too Many Ideas: How To Help Your Team Stay Focused and Creative [VIDEO]

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We’ve been growing so fast, it’s like the wild, wild west. The post Too Many Ideas: How To Help Your Team Stay Focused and Creative [VIDEO] appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Your book, Courageous Cultures, kind of scares me. We don’t actually need more ideas around here… we have too many ideas!

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How to Inspire Better Team Innovation: Cultivating an Idea Garden

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Enter the “Idea Garden,” an innovative approach to team collaboration that acts as a repository for creativity. Here’s how it works: A Place for Every Idea : In this garden, no idea is too small or too wild. Cultivating creative team collaboration in an idea garden helps you manage an abundance of ideas.

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Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

Leading Blog

Unleash your creativity: Have you ever been asked to “think outside the box”? If you are artistic and creative, that statement most likely gets you excited. This is the essence of creativity, although it goes well beyond problem-solving. To be a wildly successful visionary, you must not fear creativity.

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Leadership Perspective from Desert Island Donkeys

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Leadership perspective creates different kinds of creative solutions that make far more sense and have more support than the limited but obvious approach you might have started with. But Bon Air is not the most hospitable environment for donkeys. “There’s nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

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Looking for Ways to Improve Innovation? Improvisational Comedy Can Show You How

Leading Blog

Originality and innovation blossom from deep in the recesses of the mind, not because some people have the magical creative gene, but because they open themselves up to recognizing and exploring the uncharted areas in everyday work and life. Perfect the practice of “heightening.”. Working as a comedian has helped me build up my resiliency.

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Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft: An interview by Bob Morris

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Scott Doorley is the Creative Director at the Stanford d.school. His design work centers on using media and environments to enhance interactions, gently guide behavior, and bolster learning. His large scale digital installations with the Dacha Art […].

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Leaders, Want To Master Innovation? Then Get Funny!

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Discoveries in this field have demonstrated that humor, laughter and fun releases physical and cognitive tension, which can lead to perceptual flexibility—a required component of creativity, ideation, and problem solving. Social humor is practiced as part of the IDEO design thinking process that “encourages wild ideas” to take root.