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How to Use Mindfulness to Increase Your Team’s Creativity

Harvard Business Review

When they don’t have the time or space to incubate novel and clever ideas, they may miss out on opportunities to reframe a problem and see new possibilities for potential solutions. How do you help your team develop their creativity? Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team. You and Your Team Series.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.