Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2019

I work with creativity and innovation in companies, and I’m frustrated. This is the insistence of companies and CEOs that their organizations lack ideas. Not one, and I’ve worked with some of the most backwards bureaucracies in the world, and with innovation in North Korea to boot. You see, the problem is never idea generation.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Good Fight : Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track by Liane Davey (Page Two, 2019) Liane Davey shows you how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in?

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Mike Cardus

JULY 2, 2013

Leading to a team of people that come to meetings with no ideas or just don’t share them anymore. Reinforcing belief by management that people “ just don’t get-it, and I have to come up with all the creative ideas around here.”. How to Stop it and let people have their ideas. michael cardus is create-learning.

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Brainstorming as an approach can be an effective way of generating lots of ideas on a specific issue which can then be filtered and reviewed to determine which idea or approach is the most appropriate. This pages outlines the history and demonstrates how to conduct an effective brainstorming session.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

Once team members understand the importance of a breadth of thinking and how each person’s thinking adds value, they are able to view differences in a nonjudgmental way, and they have new context for how to tackle the challenges that inevitably arise. How can we use diverse thinking to move from conflict to creative contention?

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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. They explained the company’s situation and that they needed everyone’s best thinking on how to save costs and increase revenue.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 26, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * In the Economist review of our book, [.].

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Some of the other initiatives revolve around work-life flexibility, recruiting veteran talent and building a more diverse talent pipeline – all of which support the company’s long-term growth and innovation. How do you measure the value these D&I programs bring to the company? People are at the core of this strategy.

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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. You have to dig deeper to determine how to cause the needle to move. Either way, you are changing how work gets done in the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

What’s the best way to quickly improve innovation in your organization? That was the question posed to me recently by Warwick, the head of innovation for the Australia and New Zealand region of a multinational engineering firm. He asked because their CEO had just announced a new innovation initiative.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve ever agreed to a decision at work even when you believe it to be the worst move your company could make, you need to learn how to avoid groupthink. It can be a good idea to look out for signs and verify with employees how they actually fee l about different decisions to get a better handle on how to handle them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

Scenario: Idea generation During traditional brainstorming exercises, it is common for those with the most positional authority or passion for the topic to dominate the conversation. To get everyone’s voice into the mix, you can use a two-step process of silent writing first, then randomize the ideas, and the group shares them.

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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. How to build this critical skill. Creativity researchers usually make a distinction between creativity and innovation.

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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

MARCH 11, 2014

But for those who have to be creative on demand, these stories don’t offer much practical advice on how to have a eureka moment of their own. Long walks or hot showers may be where we think out best ideas come from, but those are hardly available options in the middle of a crowded workday. ideas generated.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. It means knowing how to mix and match. How to Turn Disagreements into Great Decisions for Your Small Business. Again, curating means knowing which people to put together.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

I had just begun to get to know the company, and it seemed to me to be brimming with innovation energy, particularly among young employees who would regularly throw out creative "What if's" during casual conversations. A month later, it was clear that the problem — as is almost always the case — wasn't a lack of raw ideas.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

I’ll encourage people to go off by themselves, generate ideas for a little bit. Or I’ll start the room in silent idea generation. I’ll give everybody five minutes to generate whatever ideas they can. Combine and improve upon ideas. That’s how to brainstorm properly.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Here’s how to get your creative juices flowing so that you can out-think and out-earn your competition. But for the masterminds behind these great ideas, the risk paid off and so too can your next great idea. In three parts, it teaches readers how to get off the ground and thrive in the social mediasphere. The lightbulb.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education. When groups simply get together and start throwing out ideas, they actually come up with fewer ideas overall and fewer novel, actionable ideas than the individuals in that group would have come up with had they worked alone. Innovation Book.

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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. We share these examples here to illustrate how these forward-thinking companies are working now to address their future talent needs. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

Mindfulness mediation works to enhance creativity and innovation. And finally, mindfulness nurtures courage and resilience in the face of skepticism and setbacks , which is important because failure and setbacks are inextricably linked with any innovation process. Subsequently, they worked in groups to develop their ideas further.

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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. But creative ideas take time. Further Reading. Harvard Business Review. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

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. Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

Fear is one of the biggest impediments to idea generation. If someone fears that their suggestions will be summarily shot down in nearly every instance, that person will simply stop trying. A leader must be trusted with the ideas and dreams of their teammates, no matter how “off the wall&# they may be.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The best part about being stuck in a rut is finding your way out of it and believing that you are capable of being innovative and inventive is half the battle. Whether you know how to get your creative juices flowing or are looking for some motivation to get you there, being inspired is always a good place to start.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 11, 2015

Google Trends is an innovative search engine that enables you to explore hot topics in different categories. This tool will enable you to see how often a particular search term is entered in various languages and in different regions of the world. Portent’s Content Idea Generator. Smart leaders know how to delegate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In the world of business, few entrepreneurs can realistically expect to emulate the colossi of innovation, such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, or Richard Branson, or the companies they created. The Western notion of “creatives” as individual superstars is in stark contrast with the realities of real-world innovation.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Below is the power point of my talk; When Ideas Have Sex, What Do The Babies Look Like? Creativity to Innovation Program Are you working to your capacity? Give Ideas P.R.O.PS…A …A Chance For Survival Innovation and NASA: What are you doing to kill new ideas within you team?

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

image by by je@n Related posts: Stop Marketing & Start Sharing: Social Media Workshop When Ideas Have Sex, What do the babies look like? UnBook tour Tickets are available here.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Indeed, when managers urge employees to invest extra effort in creativity, but then reject their ideas (often because they are single-mindedly focused on productivity and efficiency), employees become frustrated and their creativity wanes over time. As a result, innovation can stall.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. Here are just three lessons from our management innovators about leveraging social technologies to create truly social organizations: Trust your people with the future of the company. We announced the winners of the Management 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. We can look to companies renowned for innovation — like Apple and Google — and try to learn from them. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I have had more than a few engagements that have come about as a result of the need to repair the carnage and devastation that occurred from the implementation of advice put forth, or the ideas generated by a well intentioned yet unqualified “coach”. Thanks for stopping by John.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Leaders — especially those in large, successful organizations — must create an environment where people thrive on passion and purpose, and are as agile and innovative as their potential disruptors. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. The Jam was three great days of idea generation and dialogue.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. A New Name for an Old Method.

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