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One Easy Way to Get Your Team Talking (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

We discovered this technique by accident in one of our in-person strategic innovation workshops. Don’t worry, I’m not yet back doing in-person keynotes —this one was filmed before everyone suddenly had to work from home). Learn more in this popular Asking for a Friend episode.

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New Film by AthenaOnline – Auntie Claus

Marshall Goldsmith

Jon has long believed that learning could be done in a way that didn’t make kids feel like they were being taught to, so he decided to use some of those ideas to make a feature-length animated film. Innovation'

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The Signs Of Provocative Leadership

Lead Change Blog

The game – especially the off-the-beaten-path answer – was the subject of the following morning’s workshop. Our unit was famous for innovation and forward-thinking practices. The centerpiece was a set of filmed battlefield situations in which a leadership decision was required for success.

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The Innovation Mindset in Action: Sir Peter Jackson

Harvard Business Review

Like Jerry Buss , who revolutionized basketball, Jackson and other effective innovators share a common set of qualities that we call the innovation mindset: they see and act on opportunities , use "and" thinking and resourcefulness , focus on outcomes , and act to "expand the pie." He began making short films with his friends.

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Health Care for 1% of the Cost

Harvard Business Review

Can reverse innovationinnovations originating from poor countries — provide one important answer? the approach is to spend more money on major technological advances and come up with innovative products and solutions. — based on innovations PIH originally developed in Rwanda. Most definitely.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. I have seen stagecraft applied successfully in recent projects at Continuum Innovation, a Boston-based firm with which I am affiliated. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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We’re Making the Wrong Case for Diversity in Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Leading the crusade, we have the diversity industry, that unstoppable army of consultants, books, and workshops that has spent decades trying to sell business on what it calls the “business case” for workplace diversity and inclusion. The Valley’s tech workers are overwhelmingly men (83%) who are white or Asian (94%).