Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Between my research and that experience, I’ve developed some insights into what makes a venture a success or a failure. One of the assessment tools we use a great deal is the Basadur Innovation Profile. This instrument measures one’s preferences for engaging the innovation process. More on these concepts in insights 4 and 5.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Other times, their ideas generate smaller, incremental changes. But all change, whether big or small, starts with an idea. . Thought leaders present their ideas in meetings, articles, books, journals, TED talks, blogs, and webinars. . a) Their ability to produce original and innovative ideas. .

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2014

They Are Influenced By Innovation. They say that the biggest barriers to innovation are manager’s attitude, operational structure and procedures, and lack of diversity. Seventy-five percent believe that organizations can do more to develop future leaders. They believe innovation is repeatable rather than spontaneous and random.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 5, 2020

You have developed a quick form or documented process to capture what is working to increase and what is not working to decrease while the work of your team(s) is getting done. You, or your organization, have defined its 2 to 4 priorities to focus on during this time.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Research from the University of Illinois portrayed interruptions in a slightly more positive light, as when we’re interrupted, we also get to interact with the person doing the interrupting, which helps us to develop crucial social ties.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For instance, research from Bocconi University suggests that the best way to be creative and innovative is to create ideas in the company of strangers and then develop those ideas with people you know well. All of that can indeed be true, but we don’t want our organizations to be homogenous.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

Is your business struggling to come up with a new idea or innovation to solve the latest industry challenge? If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2016

Creativity is essential for innovation. Unfortunately, we don’t drift toward creativity and innovation. First, we must recognize the need to foster a team approach to creativity and innovation. Third, creativity and innovation increase when certain processes and practices are in place. Definition of Creativity.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Pisano (PublicAffairs, 2019) The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. There's a better way.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 2, 2013

How can you ensure that people’s ideas are heard and respected? Corporate Team Building Creativity Innovation Leadership Leadership Coaching Management Organization Development Problem Solving Solution-Focused bad manager coaching executive coaching idea generation Managerial Leadership'

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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.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Gathering information and different perspectives may actually inhibit innovation. Therefore, collaboration involving lots of idea generation from multiple sources does not work for many projects. Develop all employees to be self leaders. This last argument, although true, misses the point. Nurture safety and trust.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

With knowledge workers , you can’t develop and maintain an exceptional, consistently high-performing team without focusing first on what drives the team’s behaviors and actions at the root level,” says Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO of Herrmann International. How do they contribute to desired outcomes, and where are there gaps in our thinking? •

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Other successful companies build upon social interaction to develop innovative concepts leading to disruptive product and service developments. In truth, success depends on two factors-what a person knows, his or her human capital, and the network of relationships he or she has developed, the person''s social capital.".

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

ABC Corp has a vision to become a more innovative company. The outcome of a key change initiative is to add more innovative products to its portfolio. For ABC Corp, the initiative will focus mainly on the new product development process, especially the idea generation phase.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. This model isn’t just about getting greater patient feedback during the innovation process. Innovation Centers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. What does being an entrepreneur mean and what does that look like?

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Interestingly however, pairings of introverts and open individuals seemed to perform worst of all, with the ideas generated by these pairs rated 25% lower on average. Nonetheless, if you want to develop good ideas from such small teams, it may pay you to consider the personalities of those you put together.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

How do Google, Facebook and IDEO jumpstart the process that leads to innovation? It's not complicated: The "how might we" approach to innovation ensures that would-be innovators are asking the right questions and using the best wording. Often by using the same three words: How Might We. or completely re-imagine Y.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

That's the number of invention methodologies my colleagues and I have perused in the course of assembling what we call The World Database of Innovation. Strapped for cash in an era of marketing budget cuts, they make innovative use of new — and cheaper — media. This is not merely a logical theory.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These days, you're as likely to see "innovative" on any given job description as you are to see "strong communication skills" or "team player." But how do you hire innovators ? What exactly are you looking for , and more importantly, how do you identify the ability to innovate ?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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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. Creativity researchers usually make a distinction between creativity and innovation. Support for innovation. You and Your Team.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”. This is a fairly typical profile of innovation capability within a large firm.

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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. In turn, these experts must be encouraged to drill down deep in their own specializations, develop plans and strategies, and share them with the rest of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

It would therefore make sense for organizations to increase diversity in teams that are focused on exploration or idea generation, and use more-homogeneous teams to curate and implement those ideas. For all the talk about the importance of creativity, the critical piece is really innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

Mindfulness mediation works to enhance creativity and innovation. It helps you develop the ability to switch off reactive fight-or-flight responses and engage in a more thoughtful mode that’s crucial for making balanced decisions. Subsequently, they worked in groups to develop their ideas further.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

How can you ensure that your company has innovative teams? Based on our experience building innovation teams and consulting for Fortune 500 companies on setting up innovation processes, a key component that has proven to be paramount but consistently neglected is psychological assessment. Why does this even matter?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

There it was again in the Wall Street Journal on August 29: a beloved and uplifting, but unfortunately not effective, approach to driving growth through innovation. The idea is that companies need to encourage innovation from everyone and at every level in the organization. There are "innovation boot camps."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. He developed unique insight to solve an emerging need and then he drove transformational change to realize that vision.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

Immigrants were responsible for significant innovation in the manicure business: They developed the idea of the stand-alone, inexpensive nail salon, which stimulated demand, which led to wage increases, which led to further economic growth. Feed Your Employees'' Minds and Bodies Innovation Excellence.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I recently spent a couple days inside a large financial services company with a team that had been tasked with developing disruptive ideas. The team had been together for three weeks and had already come up with dozens of ideas. It's natural for people pursuing innovation to jump into idea-generation mode.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In each of these experiments, participants significantly underestimated how many ideas they could generate while persisting with the challenge. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Innovation Book. Further Reading. Harvard Business Review. Add to Cart. Why do we underestimate the benefits of persistence?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the Economist review of our book, The Innovator's DNA , the reviewer wondered whether genius-level innovators such as Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs challenge the idea that working adults can really learn how to think differently and become innovators. Innovators excel at connecting the unconnected.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve noticed workers at your organization make unanimous decisions every single time regardless of the issue, then there are signs of groupthink at your workplace and it’s likely stifling innovation and creativity. But what is groupthink?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

To become a complete man or woman, each must develop both sides of the psyche. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. Steve Jobs said, "innovation requires a thousand no's." So does leadership.

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