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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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Leadership Training For High-Potentials, New and Middle Managers

Experience to Lead

A great leader who can identify concerns and build enthusiasm – even on high-risk projects – brings a new level of trust and freedom that drives everyone to impressive heights. With leadership training, managers can study the core competencies they need to adapt and grow for their entire career.

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Five Ways to Ruin Your Innovation Process

Harvard Business Review

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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Take a Look at Your Calendar

Persuasive Powerhouse

Even though I do talk to and work with my peers and direct reports every day they may not be completely filled in with the details of a project that I’m working on. Mike Mary Jo Asmus : September 16, 2010 at 9:35 am Mike, another way to stay in more frequent contact, particularly with important projects, is to have a daily meeting.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Ten little “ings” that improve your leadership

Persuasive Powerhouse

Creativity and innovation depend on it! Praising, for example would be when a leader will make it a point to let an employee know that they did a good job on a specific task or project. Too often leaders and managers miss out on marking achievements and innovations… their own as well as those of others!

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. Core Competencies. Company Fit.