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JULY 15, 2013

Posted in Community Involvement [link] Chris Thompson is one of the most passionate people I know about innovating in the civic space where government, non-profit and for-profit intersect. Community Involvement civic leaders Community Innovation Leadership' Community Involvement civic leaders Community Innovation Leadership'

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MAY 15, 2014

The word innovation has become ubiquitous. Just because something is new – whether it’s a mission statement, product, service, or business—doesn’t mean it deserves to proclaim itself innovative. Innovation is not about doing an old thing in a new way. It’s about creating a new way to do something new, or a new way to [.]

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MAY 15, 2013

Light Your World Resources Economic Development Innovation SEEED' These are Chana’s thoughts on the first day of the conference. Chana is 13 years old and in 7th grade. Yes, I am a proud mom and find her insights [.].

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FEBRUARY 25, 2012

Posted in Community Involvement Leadership Development Here’s an interesting and brief video on the connection between risk, creativity and innovation. The narrator is David Burkus, a friend and the founder of The Leader Lab (www.theleaderlab.org). Check it out.

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JUNE 18, 2015

Aiming to jump start innovation in your organization? Innovation is a necessity, a way of life for mountaineers. Climbers plan meticulously then innovate their way through unexpected challenges to reach a summit. Negative talk—such as, “I’m not qualified” or “It’s too big and messy”—is an enemy of innovation.

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JUNE 18, 2015

Aiming to jump start innovation in your organization? Innovation is a necessity, a way of life for mountaineers. Climbers plan meticulously then innovate their way through unexpected challenges to reach a summit. Negative talk—such as, “I’m not qualified” or “It’s too big and messy”—is an enemy of innovation.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Realizing the path to innovation would require revolutionary new thinking; all three leaders grasped that it would also take a new way of coalescing and harnessing talent. Reading Collective Genius , The Innovators , Creativity, Inc. Sourcing Innovation Collaboratively. Larry Page at Google also did it.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

Some time ago it was brought to my attention that I’m an innovator — the type of person whose ideas are generally pretty far ahead of the curve, before the market is ready for my innovation. ” Early Adopter vs. Early Innovator. And yet, every day people around the world come up with and pursue innovative ideas.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Leadership Development creativity experimentation Innovation Problem Solving risk' Connect with David via his Lead Change member profile , his website and blog , LinkedIn , Twitter , or Facebook. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn.

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JULY 25, 2011

Why do leaders need to innovate? A great leader like Lee Iacocca can help a company on a verge of going out of business to recover its position in the market. A leader inspires people to achieve things they otherwise cannot do themselves. Great leaders create a vision and [.]

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

Johnson shares this insightful S-curve derived from research on innovation. People, projects and organizations could be in one of three phases on this learning-innovation curve. For organizations, it’s time to keep looking for innovations or they will be stuck at a plateau. There is no innovation without personal disruption.

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JUNE 7, 2013

Posted in Leadership Development Resources [link] MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) are a very hot topic in higher education and corporate training. Nabeel Gillani started Coursolve.org to connect organizations using MOOCs with students around the world to solve real world problems.

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JANUARY 12, 2015

They cultivate, grow, innovate and invest. Pretty good service is not your ticket to avoiding the blade, innovative service is. And, innovative service is the creation of unexpected experiences that get people positively remarking. People with abundance mentality believe the more one gives, the more there is.

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JULY 1, 2020

But what if you could reframe your thinking and utilize the conflict, crisis, and change to start seeing possibility, collaboration, and innovation? Listen in as Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell discuss how utilizing the potential energy from conflict, crisis, and change can be harnessed and used for transformation and driving innovation.

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MAY 27, 2014

Would you have ever compared your customer service to a dance organ? Think about it- both should move, amuse, and enrich all who come in contact with it. Both are about the outward appearance and the pleasure it brings, as well as how it impacts those who receive what it has to offer. Read more… Author information Chip Bell Chip R.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Everything that society has called innovative is the direct result of the personal creativity of individuals. And, it’s no surprise that organizations today want to harness that type of creativity and innovation in their employees. But, it’s time to rethink the way we make innovation happen.

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JULY 7, 2015

Michael Lee Stallard of Michael Lee Stallard shares Grassroots Innovation Contributed to WWII Victory. Don’t let others from your past stop you from re-creating your curiosity of creativity and innovation. They take relationship-building. Last but not least they take conversation.” Create your own confidence in your creativity.”

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JULY 26, 2013

Posted in Light Your World Self Leadership [link] Aron Solomon introduced me to Victor Saad and that was all it took. Victor has hacked his MBA and learned more than he would have in school. Victor’s Leap Year Project “Masters Program” is the wave of the future.

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JULY 10, 2013

Posted in Leadership Development [link] I am so honored to share the screen on Huffington Post Live with Angela Maiers, Saul Kaplan,Robin Chase, Whitney Johnson and Brian Cuban as we discuss Choose2Matter - helping our kids realize how much they have to offer and give to the world. You know how excited I get over up and coming leaders!

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MAY 21, 2013

Posted in Light Your World [link] Isn’t it amazing how we complain about our federal government’s lack of guts to do anything about the entitlements and yet we do nothing about it in our own organizations. Have you looked at your own organization lately? I’ve looked at a bunch of them – and the sense of entitlement, the ‘right’ to not [.].

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MAY 19, 2021

As organizations face more complex interdependent tasks, leadership must become more personal in order to ensure open trusting communication that will make more collaborative problem solving and innovation possible. Ensuring open trusting communication that will make more collaborative problem solving and innovation possible.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

As a byproduct of creativity, it’s time to rethink the way we make innovation happen—and it doesn’t happen in boardrooms or at a desk. Listen in as Jeff DeGraff, author of The Creative Mindset , shares the six creative thinking skills necessary to master a creative mindset and empower innovation. The answer lies in C.R.E.A.T.E.,

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APRIL 12, 2021

And yet, at the end of the day, they know what truly matters—their people skills and ability to innovate. The company’s leaders still use Apple’s vision to inspire and motivate employees to innovate and perform their best. Successful leaders are always prepared for unforeseen challenges and can fix them. Final Word.

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JULY 3, 2019

As president and co-founder of Rose Park Advisors’ Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen, Whitney Johnson utilized the theory of disruptive innovation to invest in publicly traded stocks and private early stage companies. Perhaps innovative thinking among your management team has stalled. Dare to innovate.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

His son, Howard, took his place at the helm and continued innovating. . The best innovations and businesses start with what customers need. . Innovation is not just for products. So many men went off to war that the company experimented with Fuller Brush Girls. . Alfred Fuller retired in 1942. Takeaways . Standards matter.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Clark, Founder and CEO of LeaderFactor, as he discusses The Path from Inclusion to Innovation. Psychological safety is critical to creating pathways within organizations seeking to build inclusive workplaces, which leads to higher innovation and drives results.

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JULY 8, 2019

In this post I focus on one point: selecting the right change ambassadors using Rogers’ innovation theory. ” Innovators are typically poor ambassadors. If you think you should target the innovators to be your change ambassadors, think again. If the change is good, the early innovator will come along anyway.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Few organizations have the appetite for change found at Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other innovative firms. Form an innovation team. The company website shares the full story of how this team delivered the new fighter jet and sparked an innovative culture at Lockheed Martin. Provide an innovation budget.

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MAY 26, 2021

During the hour-long webinar, you’ll discover: How an ideal process of learning is also the way you change, make decisions, solve problems, and innovate. Listen in as David and Kay make the pioneering Kolb Experiential Learning theory accessible and available to everyone who wants to continue developing throughout life.

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APRIL 29, 2020

But what if you could reframe your thinking and utilize the conflict, crisis, and change to start seeing possibility, collaboration, and innovation? Learn more and register here. The post Find Your Voice As A Leader appeared first on Lead Change.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Now, more than ever, there is a strong need to remain relevant and innovative within your career. When so much seems to be out of your control, what can you do to stay marketable and maintain your job? .

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

For instance, they’d suggest an innovative marketing strategy to promote their new product without much regard for anything else. They would also highlight the risks that came with every innovative suggestion, such as penalties by regulators for overhyping medical claims. Being Different Isn’t a Bad Thing. Strike a Balance.

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JUNE 24, 2021

Thoughtful experimentation and innovation become part of the corporate culture. By adopting this approach to a company or workspace, leaders can infuse their team and surroundings with innovation and potential. This is how “coincidentally” new ideas and products emerge, as people have an incentive to “connect the dots” for each other.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Are you a High-Creative leader, capable of rapidly growing your organization while simultaneously transforming it into a more agile, innovative, adaptive, and engaging workplace? Or are you a High-Reactive leader, who practices leadership that cancels itself out and seriously limits scale?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

As the co-founder of a boutique investment firm with Clayton Christensen, Whitney Johnson came to realize that the frameworks of disruption not only apply to innovation and investing, but to individuals. In this video, Whitney drills down on one specific aspect of personal disruption: playing to our distinctive strengths.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Neal Burgis of Successful Solutions contributed Bringing Out the Innovator in Your Employees. Neal explains: “ Bringing about change by using ideas requires leaders to hire people who are willing to use their creative thinking skills to make innovative technology happen. ” Follow Neal on Twitter at @exec_solutions.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Discover how to identify your organization’s brand champions and internal advocates and leverage their passion and talent; and enable an OPEN (Ordinary People | Extraordinary Network) circle of collaborators to innovate, solve complex problems and achieve a common goal. How should we deal with it?

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