Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Sixty-seven percent believe that there is a reluctance to take risks, a reliance on existing products, services, and ways of doing business from managers. Idea Generation Tool – Create a way for employees to have the ability to submit ideas. They believe innovation is repeatable rather than spontaneous and random.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 8, 2023

One of my favorite things to say in an idea-generation meeting is, “ Let’s invent now. Beginning something new doesn’t mean you have to have the finished, perfectly polished product in place when you begin. We can always tweak later.” I remember reading once that the can opener came almost 50 years after the tin can.

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Talent Anarchy 1

JULY 11, 2017

But as a general rule, we are kind of sloppy with how we have these conversations. If a group of humans is going to explore new ideas, generate creative solutions, and leave the room on the same page, two basic things need to happen: divergent thinking on the way to convergent thinking. Be good, or be good at it.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2016

Creativity is thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualize and do things. People who possess these character strengths persist in coming up with ideas drawn from the knowledge they’ve gained as a result of their curiosity to learn and to improve upon their work product and processes. Definition of Creativity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2013

You contribute by organizing the new projects and developing efficient systems that ensure the work or product is completed with precision and accuracy. Bottom line; the more an organization incorporates both types of innovators - idea generation and idea implementation - the better the solutions.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

Crowdsourcing is rapidly growing in terms of popularity among business owners because it’s proven to be a cost-effective option for idea generation. In reality, the time it takes to sit colleagues down, brainstorm, validate ideas and put them into action is often hugely underestimated. Retain a firm handle on your overheads.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Nonetheless, it was important to human growth and understanding to entertain it because without the exploration that comes from new ideas, I suspect we would simply all fade to black eventually… or die of boredom. Now, more than ever, businesses are having to rethink their product and how they deliver to market.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

When you can do this, you also allow your team to feel as if it is acceptable when they are wrong on an idea making them feel more comfortable with their creativity and idea generation. The Product Management Perspective: The five ideas above are all important aspects of successful product management.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 22, 2019

When social media first emerged, there were widespread concerns about its impact on productivity, but while those concerns have largely dissipated, there is still discussion about the best way to utilize social media for professional success. Their creativity was also gauged via interviews with their managers. Boosting creativity.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

BOTTOMLINE: Brainstorming is just one of many idea-generating techniques that make a company creative. However, it is of little to no value if it's not combined with observing consumers, talking to experts, or building prototype products and experiences that provide an outlet for the ideas being generated.

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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. It’s like having a mentor guide your journey. How do you weather disappointment and failure?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 17, 2013

Circulate the ideas generated and discuss the impact of trends on your products, services, technologies, and constituents. We’ve all had a glimpse of the future. A smaller team can then pull the abstracts into reports for use in planning and decision-making.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Prioritizing holiday employee engagement can help boost productivity while also helping spread the word of employee appreciation across aisles and boardrooms. Even if employees are not walking around moping and sighing, they are highly likely to be demotivated to work in the days leading up to the holiday season.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

How do these different modes of thinking affect team dynamics, process flows, idea generation and problem-solving approaches? • Thomas Kayser: Building Team Power: How to Unleash the Collaborative Genius of Teams for Increased Engagement, Productivity, and Results . Related articles. People Reading. Team Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Companies are increasingly using crowdsourcing to identify promising ideas that they can translate into winning new products. In the case of the Japanese consumer goods firm Muji , we found that crowdsourced products sold better and were more profitable. The latter set of stores sold substantially more of the product.

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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. The connection and coordination necessary to get things done happens because of productive personal relationships based upon trust and reciprocity.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Consider the fictitious example of ABC Corp, an organization that historically has built predictable products with existing technology. The outcome of a key change initiative is to add more innovative products to its portfolio. The current steps for vetting ideas will gain new criteria for selecting ideas that will be developed.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

Nonetheless, it was important to human growth and understanding to entertain it because without the exploration that comes from new ideas, I suspect we would simply all fade to black eventually… or die of boredom. Now, more than ever, businesses are having to rethink their product and how they deliver to market.

Organization 77

Organization Idea Generation Diversity Environment 77

Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 4, 2017

New ideas are usually out there – they just need to be brought to the table. What ideas can you add for productive idea generation? I’ve even led us to play games prior to starting such a meeting. That’s the main benefit of this type process.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

resulting in vastly higher levels of productivity, efficiency, and loyalty.” This means assembling employees – all of whom are individual experts capable of idea generation – and encouraging them to think new thoughts in different ways and challenging them to do new things.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

When every voice is heard your team will make better decisions, you’ll surface and solve problems earlier, you build engagement, ownership, and productivity. 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.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

resulting in vastly higher levels of productivity, efficiency, and loyalty.” This means assembling employees – all of whom are individual experts capable of idea generation – and encouraging them to think new thoughts in different ways and challenging them to do new things.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 62

Jason Womack

JANUARY 15, 2015

with an awesome question like: “How do creativity and productivity relate to one another?". Being productive - even just thinking about being productive - pulls me out of my creative space. Try to be creative, without being productive. And, try to be productive, without being creative. That’s how they’re related.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

resulting in vastly higher levels of productivity, efficiency, and loyalty.” This means assembling employees – all of whom are individual experts capable of idea generation – and encouraging them to think new thoughts in different ways and challenging them to do new things.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

These inventions, products, and businesses all started with an idea. An idea that to anyone other than its creator(s) may have seemed like an insane thing to invest much time, money, or effort in bringing to fruition. What’s important is that you give your best ideas a shot at life. Great ideas are like gold.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

That can be a big source of frustration, and stop the idea generation your team needs in order to succeed. The process helped save a key off-site meeting and can get your team working more productively—without the headaches. How bad can it get? Increase the size of the group, and the problem only gets worse. What to do?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Dr. Tony McCaffrey outlines a new way to generate ideas. See More Videos > See More Videos > There are several reasons for this productivity loss, as academics call it. For one, when people work together, their ideas tend to converge. They pass their stack of ideas to the person on their right, who builds on them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent. In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Many of the most productive creative people intentionally set a project aside and take a physical break from their work believing that this incubation stage is where ideas begin to come together below the threshold of the conscious mind. ideas generated.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

While I thought many of the ideas were legitimately interesting, after a few hours of working together, a nagging concern began to creep in: that the team hadn't quite formulated what question it was seeking to answer. It's natural for people pursuing innovation to jump into idea-generation mode.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

We asked professional comedians to generate punch lines for a sketch comedy scene; adults to generate advertisement slogans for a product; and people to come up with tactics a charity organization could use to increase donations. Several similar follow-up studies we conducted produced the same result.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

The "Productivity" method popularized by Tor Dahl is backed up by solid experience data. TRIZ , for example — a model devised by Russian inventor Genrich Altshuller — is the original empirically based method, followed by SIT (for "Systematic Inventive Thinking") and a few other updated versions of it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

If you want to have a more productive meeting, focus on a strong opening. Differentiate between idea generation sessions and decision-making forums; separate meetings driving long-term strategic thinking from those driving short-term action and accountability. “This is our monthly capacity-building session.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

The team building Google+ was looking for ways to differentiate their product from Facebook and the ability to control personal information was seen as compelling. Brian’s prior work gave him the chance to step in and help the team build that data control feature for the product launch. They work with an eye toward scale.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Tim Brown, the CEO of the innovation and design firm IDEO, says that when his company takes on a design challenge of almost any type — and IDEO does everything from designing new products to envisioning new ways to deliver healthcare — it invariably starts by asking How Might We.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff.

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