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How to Build a Team of Innovators

Great Leadership By Dan

When Brad Bird was hired at Pixar to develop a new animated movie, he recruited the supposedly disgruntled and “misfit” workers from within the company. The result of their efforts was “Toy Story,” which set a new standard for animated films. Innovation is about embracing challenges to develop new insights. Actions, not words.

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Recommended aim, with examples

Deming Institute

The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain—stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment—over the long term. Note that Deming does advocate personal growth, which I think of as development. The film is called A New Economy , and you can stream it on Netflix as of this writing.

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The Key to Finding Solutions

Let's Grow Leaders

They guide the cast and crew to filming locations without them having to rely on maps or GPS and the random word or letters are codes for a particular movie. 05:54 With type production schedules in multiple filming, the signs make it easy for everyone to get where they need to be. What are these signs? No addresses to worry about.

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How the Internet is Shaping Our "Global Brain"

Harvard Business Review

This is a perfect way to think about the way a brain develops, influenced by its surrounding people and experiences. It's also how we should think about the way the Internet is developing, and about the way our choices in how we use technology are shaping this global brain. But its success has generated a worrying backlash.

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The Posh, Predictable World of Business Conferences

Harvard Business Review

Steve Buscemi's portrayal of antihero mob kingpin Nucky Thompson is the stuff you almost never see on the big screen anymore — extraordinarily deep character development, moral dilemma, actions, consequences, and a human drama as rich as life itself. Which brings me to business conferences, oddly enough.

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When a Prototype Isn’t Enough, Use Theatrical Tricks to Sell Your Idea

Harvard Business Review

But I am also excited about “stagecraft,” a related approach that fakes a new product or service to get real-life reactions from users early in the development process. It uses all the tricks of theater and film to fool an audience into believing that what they are seeing, hearing, or even touching is the real thing.

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How Criticism Creates Innovative Teams

Harvard Business Review

Sloan continued, "Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what this decision is about.". The "control" teams were given no further instructions and told to develop as many ideas as possible.