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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Workplace Culture: How to Leverage Innovation No AI Bot Can Replace

Let's Grow Leaders

The Power of Workplace Culture in an AI Universe: A virtual conversation about Empathy and Innovation Note: This article on Workplace Culture is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of our book, Courageous Culture: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. What’s your perspective on that?”

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Creative Teams: 12 Habits That Foster Curiosity and Collaboration

Let's Grow Leaders

Creative teams stay open to what’s possible and explore alternative perspectives. Some of the best teams we know are great because they stay curious and creative. Part 2: Great Teams: 12 Practical Collaboration Habits to Create Clarity 12 Habits to Foster More Curiosity and Creativity on Your Team 1. Learn more here).

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Eat, Sleep, Innovate

Leading Blog

T HE potential for innovation exists within our organizations. How do you make innovation as natural as eating and sleeping? And that doesn’t begin by copying the relics of highly innovative companies. Their definition of innovation is “ something different that creates value.” Innovators ask, “What if?” “Is

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Systems Thinking: The Superpower You Didn't Know You Needed.

Rich Gee Group

Enter Systems Thinking – a cool way of approaching problems that's all about seeing how everything connects. Instead of focusing on one part of an issue, Systems Thinking helps us understand how all the parts fit together. Ready to become a Systems Thinking master? For example, imagine you're trying to lose weight.

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Unlocking Creativity: Are These Creativity-Inhibiting Mindsets Holding You Back?

Leading Blog

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. In a world where we must adapt or die, we need creative solutions. But realistically, creativity is not like that.

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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. I NNOVATION has always been important. New technology will change the way we work.