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Businesses Are Unintentionally Limiting Their Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

In their search for innovative solutions, businesses actively seek a variety of unique ideas. However, focusing on a specific set of ideas also means the company might miss out on fresh and innovative ones. In rapidly evolving industries like technology, narrowing the search for ideas may not lead to innovative breakthroughs.

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What a Mechanical Shark Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Leading Blog

Instead, he brainstormed with the talented people around him and came up with a new vision – one that was just as compelling as the original, and with the added bonus that it would actually work. In business, we tend to mythologize innovative leaders as those who have a revolutionary vision and stick with it, no matter what.

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Ambidextrous Innovation:

Great Leadership By Dan

How Can Leaders’ Best Explore and Exploit both Disruptive and Incremental Approaches to Innovation? These players test more established racers with breakthrough innovations. Yet such a rapid and competitive approach to innovation may not be sustainable over the long term. So how can you successfully navigate the innovation race?

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Creating the Conditions for Sustainable Innovation

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's some new research on innovation and a guest post by By Rich Wellins, Ph,D., Senior Vice President, Development Dimensions International (DDI): In the past year, innovation has risen to the top of the business agenda. It seems not a day goes by that the major media writes (or broadcasts) stories in innovation.

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New to AI? Here Are 19 Powerful Beginner AI Prompts for Business & Servant Leaders

Modern Servant Leader

Idea Generation: Struggling to come up with ideas for a team activity, product innovation, or rewards? Decision Making and Problem Solving Don’t rely on antiquated technology like your Magic Eight Ball or a Jump to Conclusions mat. Brainstorming New Product Ideas Example 4.2. Ask AI for a list of suggestions.

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Influencing Creativity and Innovation

Persuasive Powerhouse

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Can Interruptions Be A Good Thing At Work?

The Horizons Tracker

Creative boost Research from the Hamburg University of Technology suggests that they might also provide our creativity with a boost. Through such analysis, we can identify which interruptions have the potential to enhance innovation and determine the most effective strategies for managing them within organizations.