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A Fresh, Fast, and Fun Way to Focus Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

” That approach will get the job done, but it’s unlikely to unleash breakthrough innovation or a head-turning year. This can be done in email, or the old fashioned way. In our strategic Winning Well workshops and off-sites we always include exercises to get past the “Ugh, how can we get all this done?”

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Scan for the 3 key ingredients of trends to survive in the Expectation Economy

Strategy Driven

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Innovations. Opportunistic businesses of all varieties can relieve this tension with innovative new products, services, experiences or entire new business models.

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Five Ways To Get Creative While Working From Home: From someone who does it all the time

Strategy Driven

Artists and musicians have studios, crafts people have workshops, professors and pastors have studies, and scientists have laboratories. The philosopher Immanuel Kant worked in bed at certain times of the day with blankets arranged around him in a particular fashion. Where is your creative space? Where do you do your best work?

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10 Offline Marketing Methods You’ve Probably Never Considered

Strategy Driven

A business card may sound like an old-fashioned form of marketing, but people still like to have a physical copy of a company’s details to hand. Similarly, you may consider establishing workshops to your customers to help them with any problems they may have. Creative Business Cards. Digital Signs.

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From Yurt to Beer Cooler: Adventures with Duct Tape

Mills Scofield

It is always a bit overwhelming to be given the task of making anything you want , especially with a fully stocked workshop - complete with band saw and laser cutter - to suit your every need. In true Brown fashion, we had an astrophysicist, a philosopher, two biomedical engineers, and an international development major (me).

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Improving Innovation in Africa

Harvard Business Review

New research , funded by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and conducted by my team at the African Institution of Technology , shows that within Africa, innovation is accelerating and the continent is finding better ways of solving local problems, even as it attracts top technology global brands. Opportunity is on the rise in Africa.

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Answering Your Questions About P&G and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone. What if I don't have that foundation?