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The Key to Building a Culture of Innovation

leaderCommunicator

According to a group of researchers who’ve studied this question for more than a decade, many leaders are doing all the wrong things when it comes to encouraging creative thinking. They seek out input and encourage creative thinking. What’s your next plan to foster honest dialogue – and creative thinking - at your company?

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Find the Unicorns to Help Your Business Excel

Skip Prichard

Regardless of the leader’s ability to innovate and lead a phenomenal tech or creative company, the number one trait of any leader I work with is empathy, followed by the ability to handle stress in a way that encourages solutions.

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The Future of Our Partnership With Machines

Skip Prichard

More than ever, we are going to need emotionally intelligent, self-aware, empathetic, creative thinkers to work alongside machines and steer business and policy decisions toward positive ends. To some degree, I feel that education and training are now very different tracks – equally important, but separate from one another.

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Master the Four Fields of Leadership

Skip Prichard

He was the CTO of a global manufacturing company. People started looking forward to team meetings instead of dreading them, and the meetings had more laughter, mutual support, and creativity. Comment on how this model has helped people. Would you share a story (anonymously) of how this model impacted someone’s style? .

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When Your Best Customers Really Aren't

Harvard Business Review

After an intense innovation workshop, the CTO of a globally-successful Chinese electronics supplier approached, unhappily. The CTO grimaced. As we talked, the CTO mentioned that one of these firms was a subsidiary of one of his company's biggest customers. Why do they refuse your offers to innovate?".

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How to Tell If You’re Delegating Too Much — and What to Do About It

Harvard Business Review

One CTO I coached realized he’d been delegating too much because he no longer had proper visibility into what his teams were working on. Without this approach, there can be a cascading effect of morale issues, loss of creativity, and a lack of teamwork. Reset with your team.

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To Come Up with a Good Idea, Start by Imagining the Worst Idea Possible

Harvard Business Review

There are many creative tools a designer uses to think differently, but none is more counter-intuitive than “wrong thinking,” also called reverse thinking. He had her sit next to the CEO, and enabled her to wander around and ask questions to everyone, including the CEO and the CTO.