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What a Mechanical Shark Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Leading Blog

But this wasn’t the film itself. It was a documentary on the making of the movie, all about the lengths that then 27-year-old wunderkind Steven Spielberg and his crew went to in creating a film that would define the summer blockbuster. The scene is famous for the way it terrified audiences without ever showing the titular shark.

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Open Spaces, Open Minds

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It turns the brainstorming ideal into a physical space. Half of us have made career decisions based on work place aesthetics. In Hollywood, film industry people are using online games, Xbox live, and Second Life, as an electronic space to throw ideas around. In the Oobeya, nothing is taboo. Environment affects everyone.

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Set the Conditions for Anyone on Your Team to Be Creative

Harvard Business Review

Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team. Employees need to constantly write six-page memos, even for introducing small product features throughout their careers at the company. So the first step to being creative is to become an expert in a particular area. You and Your Team Series. Thinking Creatively. Emma Seppala.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business Review

Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers. The group brainstormed around this idea, and began to conceive a dramatic new prototype that would enable them to attract a new, younger audience. The SFO project began in January 2015. Keeping the creativity going.