The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 22, 2019

A recent study from INSEAD suggests that innovative uses of social media are strongly correlated with creativity in our professional lives. Their creativity was also measured using an 11-item scale assessing things such as problem identification and idea generation. Boosting creativity.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

To me, the selfie stick is a metaphor for Corporate America’s creativity dilemma. Organizations seek ways to boost creativity. But myopia is an enemy of creativity, and what is more myopic than a selfie and a tiny screen? What creative process do they use to envision and actualize their themed areas? People laugh at me.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 13, 2011

It’s not different in creativity. In a fast moving world, creativity requires an open-mindedness and willingness to examine new ideas. Perhaps one of the most deeply entrenched mental models in organizational management is the idea of the hierarchical structure. Academy of Management Review, 35 (4), 558-578.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Idea Generation: Struggling to come up with ideas for a team activity, product innovation, or rewards? Idea Generation Example 2. Brainstorming New Product Ideas: Generate creative product ideas or enhancements based on industry trends or customer needs. Ask AI for a list of suggestions.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 2, 2013

I’ve seen this happen many times: Employee to Manager: I’ve got a great idea and think that by doing x we will get y,z and extra outcomes. Manager Responds: Yes that is good, and if you would just do p, q, and r we would achieve y, z and more outcomes. Employee to Manager: Yeah I see I will do it that way. Photo Credit.

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Management Idea Generation Executive Coaching Self-aware 141

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 18, 2021

It’s fundamentally why immigrants are often so creative as they bring that fresh perspective to their adopted home. New research from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) highlights that we can get a similar boost just by moving employees between company sites. Generating ideas.

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Innovation Tacit Knowledge Creativity Idea Generation 80

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2021

The study found that ideas from people working in groups were overvalued by 37%, versus just 4% for employees working on their own. This sees ideas generated by managers overvalued by 42%, whereas those by frontline workers being undervalued by 11%. Avoiding overvaluing ideas. So can this problem be overcome?

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Innovation Idea Generation Automotive Proposal 131

Management Excellence

MARCH 27, 2022

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Creativity 40

Creativity Team Idea Generation Innovation 40

Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2019

I work with creativity and innovation in companies, and I’m frustrated. This is the insistence of companies and CEOs that their organizations lack ideas. They all claim they have a problem with generating enough ideas, and they’re all wrong. They already have all the ideas they could even need, and so do you.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that managers would strive to achieve a degree of cultural fit when they recruit. Indeed, a few years ago research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a poor cultural fit can cost somewhere between 50-60% of that employee’s annual salary.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 2, 2023

Recent research from Bocconi University highlighted that we often develop the best ideas when we work with people we don’t know well, but then we develop those ideas most effectively with people we know well. This can help to emphasize the benefits of functional dissimilarity to the team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2013

Yet in a recent survey of 5,000 only 1 in 4 people believe they are living up to their creative potential. Typically most managers do not realize there are different styles even though they divide 50/50 in the populations worldwide. Each is needed but often not identified or respected.

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Innovation Contingency Plans Competitive Advantage Brainstorming 246

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

Imagine that on a Friday afternoon, before leaving work to start your weekend, you are asked to solve two problems that require creative thinking. But if coming up with creative answers is your goal, this approach may not be optimal. A second study focused on creative ideation. switching every five minutes).

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Creativity Idea Generation Participative Organizational Behavior 15

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

You may have some employees who communicate differently than others, conflicts to overcome within your team and roadblocks that can stunt creativity. When you can do this, you also allow your team to feel as if it is acceptable when they are wrong on an idea making them feel more comfortable with their creativity and idea generation.

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Examples Delegation Idea Generation Team 192

Rapid BI

AUGUST 19, 2023

Brainstorming often gets a bad press, with the popular belief being that it fosters groupthink and generally hinders the creative process. New research shines a new light on the value of brainstorming however, especially a bit later in the creative process when ideas have already been generated.

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Brainstorming Groupthink Creativity Process 45

Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Brainstorming as an approach can be an effective way of generating lots of ideas on a specific issue which can then be filtered and reviewed to determine which idea or approach is the most appropriate. This pages outlines the history and demonstrates how to conduct an effective brainstorming session.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Big organizations require a different set of management practices and approaches—a discipline focused on the strategies, systems and culture for taking their companies to the next level.

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Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 236

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. But is there actually any evidence in support of this idea? Thinking Creatively. Emma Seppala.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

By taking employee input, creating planning committees, encouraging creativity, introducing team-building initiatives, and allowing spaces for communication and idea generation, employers can significantly contribute to holiday morale.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s a chance to free your colleagues and other professionals from the shackles, giving them complete freedom to think as creatively as they want. In doing so, you’ll also maximize the number of options you have, rather than forging ahead with an idea just because it’s your only idea. Retain a firm handle on your overheads.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

• How do these different modes of thinking affect team dynamics, process flows, idea generation and problem-solving approaches? • How can we use diverse thinking to move from conflict to creative contention? When managed well, cognitive diversity has been proven to pay off,” Herrmann-Nehdi says. “A

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

In more and more occupations, creativity is part of the job description. But it’s hard to keep having great ideas day after day. Executives at these and other companies say meditation is not only useful as a stress-reduction tool but can also enhance creativity, opening doors where once there seemed to be only a wall.

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Creativity Brainstorming Participative Open-book 15

LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

In addition to these important idea-generating qualities, other skills are equally important when it comes to navigating the overall innovation process given the high level of ambiguity and uncertainty which is inherent when creating business breakthroughs. Pushing boundaries occurs on two levels. Data- Intuition Integration.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

What determines whether the ideas we generate are truly creative? In a series of experiments we observed that people consistently underestimated the number of ideas they could generate while solving a creative challenge. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). But creative ideas take time.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. The curatorial Beta leader gives context to the varied concepts of others, and then designs a narrative from the creativity of all the organization’s thought leaders. ed performance. Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis. Cubicles and closed door offices do little to help foster teamwork and creativity. . Many companies have been slow to adopt new workplace philosophies for fear of change.

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Social Capital Cialdini Competitive Advantage Human Capital 77

Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

For ABC Corp, the initiative will focus mainly on the new product development process, especially the idea generation phase. New activities will be added to improve creativity. The current steps for vetting ideas will gain new criteria for selecting ideas that will be developed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Though our inspiration levels fluctuate from time to time, we all differ in our baseline levels of creativity. For instance, it is safe to assume that John Coltrane was more creative than Justin Bieber, and that the creative talent of Leonardo Da Vinci exceeded that of George W. But can you coach someone to be more creative?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Creativity and innovation are not among them. We know how some factors affect creativity and innovation, but we’re only just beginning to understand some of the more complex relationships. Thinking Creatively. Creativity researchers usually make a distinction between creativity and innovation.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Here’s how to get your creative juices flowing so that you can out-think and out-earn your competition. These inventions, products, and businesses all started with an idea. There are times when you are so close to a project that it creates a mental block for idea generation. Use a prop when it is time to be creative.

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Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Early in creative acts it’s important to diverge, that is, to think about what you are doing in as many ways as possible. Thinking Creatively. How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative. You Can Teach Someone to Be More Creative. They pass their stack of ideas to the person on their right, who builds on them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

There are two reasons most of us aren’t very good at creative problem solving. First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education. Second, few people understand group dynamics well enough to harness their power to help groups maximize their creativity. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series).

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Groupthink Process Osborne Idea Generation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

But for those who have to be creative on demand, these stories don’t offer much practical advice on how to have a eureka moment of their own. Long walks or hot showers may be where we think out best ideas come from, but those are hardly available options in the middle of a crowded workday. ideas generated.

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Incubator How To Creativity Idea Generation 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

I had just begun to get to know the company, and it seemed to me to be brimming with innovation energy, particularly among young employees who would regularly throw out creative "What if's" during casual conversations. A month later, it was clear that the problem — as is almost always the case — wasn't a lack of raw ideas.

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Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Idea Generation Document 15

Rapid BI

MAY 20, 2011

Brainstorming often gets a bad press, with the popular belief being that it fosters groupthink and generally hinders the creative process. New research shines a new light on the value of brainstorming however, especially a bit later in the creative process when ideas have already been generated.

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Brainstorming Groupthink Creativity Process 48

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

He passionately believed in the ability of teams to generate brilliant ideas, provided they follow four rules: members should share any idea that came to mind, build on the ideas of others, avoid criticism, and, most notably, strive for quantity not quality. Thinking Creatively. Candor led to greater creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Idea generation is the best place to invest money to improve innovation. This is the most common innovation mistake that I see: acting like innovation is all about generating new ideas. Innovation is the process of idea management – so, yes, you need great ideas to innovate, but that is only part of it.

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