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

Let's Grow Leaders

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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Cognitive Reappraisal for Wild Success

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Wild Success by Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely illustrates seven leadership lessons we can learn from the harrowing experiences of extreme athletes. They must be able to execute a plan under pressure. The same qualities that help them succeed will help any leader perform at a higher level and especially in a crisis situation.

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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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The Super Clever Strategy for Winning Wild Success

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2. Keep creativity flowing. Imagination is the beginning of creation, so find ways to spark your creativity and new ideas. Stay in imaginative shape by exercising your creativity and letting yourself go off the map. When creativity and determination work together, you can expect a masterpiece.

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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. They’d take care of injured donkeys, get them out of the wild, reduce their impact on the native plants, and animals, and reduce donkey-human conflict.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Doesn’t micromanaging and process smother creativity? Often, and especially in contemporary times, the real story of innovation doesn’t involve lone geniuses or flashes of inspiration, but teams, organizations, and leaders who cultivate systems and cultures where new ideas can sprout and flourish. You know this company.