Mike Cardus

APRIL 5, 2020

You have developed a quick form or documented process to capture what is working to increase and what is not working to decrease while the work of your team(s) is getting done. As you check-in with your management, you are reflecting the priorities to them.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2014

They Are Influenced By Innovation. They say that the biggest barriers to innovation are manager’s attitude, operational structure and procedures, and lack of diversity. Seventy-five percent believe that organizations can do more to develop future leaders. They Are Influenced By Social Impact.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Research from the University of Illinois portrayed interruptions in a slightly more positive light, as when we’re interrupted, we also get to interact with the person doing the interrupting, which helps us to develop crucial social ties.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 2, 2013

I’ve seen this happen many times: Employee to Manager: I’ve got a great idea and think that by doing x we will get y,z and extra outcomes. Manager Responds: Yes that is good, and if you would just do p, q, and r we would achieve y, z and more outcomes. Employee to Manager: Yeah I see I will do it that way. Photo Credit.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that managers would strive to achieve a degree of cultural fit when they recruit. Indeed, a few years ago research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a poor cultural fit can cost somewhere between 50-60% of that employee’s annual salary.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. The answer is more than a time-management system or a silver-bullet solution for changing your routines. Blog Post ).

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 2, 2023

Recent research from Bocconi University highlighted that we often develop the best ideas when we work with people we don’t know well, but then we develop those ideas most effectively with people we know well. This can help to emphasize the benefits of functional dissimilarity to the team.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

Is your business struggling to come up with a new idea or innovation to solve the latest industry challenge? If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

With knowledge workers , you can’t develop and maintain an exceptional, consistently high-performing team without focusing first on what drives the team’s behaviors and actions at the root level,” says Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO of Herrmann International. When managed well, cognitive diversity has been proven to pay off,” Herrmann-Nehdi says.

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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. Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis. Most Job Seekers Searchable Online.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

ABC Corp has a vision to become a more innovative company. The outcome of a key change initiative is to add more innovative products to its portfolio. For ABC Corp, the initiative will focus mainly on the new product development process, especially the idea generation phase.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. This model isn’t just about getting greater patient feedback during the innovation process. Innovation Centers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. What does being an entrepreneur mean and what does that look like?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. In turn, these experts must be encouraged to drill down deep in their own specializations, develop plans and strategies, and share them with the rest of the organization. Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

How do Google, Facebook and IDEO jumpstart the process that leads to innovation? It's not complicated: The "how might we" approach to innovation ensures that would-be innovators are asking the right questions and using the best wording. And the 'we' part says we're going to do it together and build on each other's ideas.".

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

That's the number of invention methodologies my colleagues and I have perused in the course of assembling what we call The World Database of Innovation. Strapped for cash in an era of marketing budget cuts, they make innovative use of new — and cheaper — media. This is not merely a logical theory.

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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. Creativity researchers usually make a distinction between creativity and innovation. Support for innovation. You and Your Team.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”. This is a fairly typical profile of innovation capability within a large firm.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. What these stories and hacks offer are well-developed, highly-detailed, and battle-tested roadmaps for making that assumption a reality. You can read all of those here. Story by Jim Lavoie.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

It would therefore make sense for organizations to increase diversity in teams that are focused on exploration or idea generation, and use more-homogeneous teams to curate and implement those ideas. For all the talk about the importance of creativity, the critical piece is really innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

Mindfulness mediation works to enhance creativity and innovation. It helps you develop the ability to switch off reactive fight-or-flight responses and engage in a more thoughtful mode that’s crucial for making balanced decisions. Subsequently, they worked in groups to develop their ideas further.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. He developed unique insight to solve an emerging need and then he drove transformational change to realize that vision.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

There it was again in the Wall Street Journal on August 29: a beloved and uplifting, but unfortunately not effective, approach to driving growth through innovation. The idea is that companies need to encourage innovation from everyone and at every level in the organization. There are "innovation boot camps."

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve noticed workers at your organization make unanimous decisions every single time regardless of the issue, then there are signs of groupthink at your workplace and it’s likely stifling innovation and creativity. Provide Training: Risk Appraisal, Conflict Management, Critical Thinking, etc. But what is groupthink?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In each of these experiments, participants significantly underestimated how many ideas they could generate while persisting with the challenge. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Innovation Book. Further Reading. Harvard Business Review. Add to Cart. Why do we underestimate the benefits of persistence?

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In the world of business, few entrepreneurs can realistically expect to emulate the colossi of innovation, such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, or Richard Branson, or the companies they created. Genetic studies suggest that genes determine only 10% of the variability in creative potential, so there is a lot of room for development.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

To become a complete man or woman, each must develop both sides of the psyche. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. Steve Jobs said, "innovation requires a thousand no's." So does leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

It's about information exchange, resource exchange, idea generation and on and on. It's a huge and real loss in terms of career development. Companies also lose some of the opportunity to have employees contribute new ideas that might be percolating within the larger culture but under the radar of the organization.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It is still common for most managers to refer to people skills as “soft skills,” because they aren’t specifically about the business of the organization. But he aggregated people skills, managing emotions, personality and character traits into a single area of competence, further confusing the issue. And that's not all.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Below is the power point of my talk; When Ideas Have Sex, What Do The Babies Look Like? Creativity to Innovation Program Are you working to your capacity? Give Ideas P.R.O.PS…A …A Chance For Survival Innovation and NASA: What are you doing to kill new ideas within you team?

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

image by by je@n Related posts: Stop Marketing & Start Sharing: Social Media Workshop When Ideas Have Sex, What do the babies look like? UnBook tour Tickets are available here. Social Marketing for Team Building.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 11, 2011

When I left my old employer the portable path came with me, and has served an my calming, thought provoking, idea generation, slowing down – best practice. 45 minutes of walking on the rocks, drinking water, and listing ideas on the chalk board…the process is mapped out and now I have the ideas and table of contents developed.

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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 time, employees learned that developing and submitting new ideas was not worth the effort. As a result, innovation can stall.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. According to Management 2.0 Rite-Solutions' innovation engine demonstrates that leaders are willing to take direction from the crowd.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

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