Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Big organizations require a different set of management practices and approaches—a discipline focused on the strategies, systems and culture for taking their companies to the next level. The answer is more than a time-management system or a silver-bullet solution for changing your routines. Blog Post ). How do you deal with success?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

By taking employee input, creating planning committees, encouraging creativity, introducing team-building initiatives, and allowing spaces for communication and idea generation, employers can significantly contribute to holiday morale.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2016

They receive a written response from the CEO and if their idea is implemented they also receive a “thank-you” gift. An example of such an idea is “Styleyes” a computer aided system, pairing customers with ideal frames to fit appearance and lifestyle.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

And so he described the process of writing and idea generation as having two stages: ACTION and REFLECTION. Online Learning System Do the Work Take Action Reflection Steven Pressfield Personal Development' Act, reflect. Act, reflect. NEVER act and reflect at the same time. In writing, ‘action’ means putting words on paper.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 16, 2019

Complacency prevails where the leader doesn’t set measurable progress as a value and ensure systems are in place to meet them. A leader who stifles idea generation puts a lid on creativity and eventually curtails growth and change.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Complacency prevails where the leader doesn’t set measurable progress as a value and ensure systems are in place to meet them. A leader that stifles idea generation puts a lid on creativity and eventually curtails growth and change.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 2, 2016

Complacency prevails where the leader doesn’t set measurable progress as a value and ensure systems are in place to meet them. A leader who stifles idea generation puts a lid on creativity and eventually curtails growth and change.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To flourish in today’s business environment, organizations and individuals need to transition from the outdated Alpha system to the fast-growing Beta paradigm. Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. I call this one Beta.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

There are times when you are so close to a project that it creates a mental block for idea generation. It could be anything (such as wearing a silly hat) that signals to your brain that it is time to go into idea-generating mode. Get an outsider’s opinion. Bringing in a fresh perspective can make all the difference.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To build healthy debate and an open communication system, companies need to learn how to avoid groupthink from spreading within their organization. A part of the employee’s responsibilities could involve idea generation or problem-solving, where employees can be encouraged to find new ways to approach a problem.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

From idea generation to problem-solving to delivering results, teamwork is essential to productivity and innovation, and companies need a toolbox of technologies that will allow teams to work together and build relationships. Meet Online Anytime, Anywhere.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Inside the book, he laid out a system for generating ideas in groups, to maximize the number of ideas you generate. 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. His name was Alex Osborn.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Think Bloomberg terminal meets Monopoly board: a dynamic marketplace for idea generation and development in which all employees are entrusted with the future direction of the company, asked for their opinions, listened to, and rewarded for successful ideas. Entangled Talents: a 21st-century Social Learning System.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

While office time is important, both for formal meetings and for those informal conversations that are so important for idea generation and team camaraderie, the fact is that most knowledge workers could get by with doing something on the order of 30% of their work from home (or other locations) and at non-traditional work times.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The bars reflect how two teams of managers, a senior team and a junior team, rank this firm on the five stages in the innovation process – idea generation, selection, and implementation, as well as sustaining innovations and diffusing them. Higher scores on the scale of 1-3 mean that they believe they are stronger in those areas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

In essence, Julie wants to become what I call an "idea entrepreneur" — a person who builds a coordinated effort around a deeply-felt idea with the goal of achieving influence, affecting how people think and behave, and thus making some change in an organization or system. Maybe you know one. Maybe you are one.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

It is not enough to master the elements of the system — one also has to rearrange them in original ways. Therefore, a higher level of expertise, particularly in an area your employee is passionate about, will increase their chances of being creative in that domain. Of course, expertise is not sufficient for creative performance.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Is the performance management system focused upon outcomes? Do performance measures provide an early warning system for problems? Some try to take advantage of the system. Some are clueless as to the existence of a system, pecking order, corporate agendas, company vision or other realities. Creative new ideas generated.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. But he also realized that the existing system was not working as needed. Over time, employees learned that developing and submitting new ideas was not worth the effort.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

In an article in the December Atlantic , Don Peck described Knack’s success in identifying successful idea generators at Royal Dutch Shell, and depicted such game-based assessments as part of a revolution in people analytics that would transform hiring over the next decade. Disappointment and failure make us better and stronger, right?

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This will an experiential exploration into; Creativity to Innovation Idea creation How social media can create stronger, healthier ideas How social media can create weaker, sicker ideas Techniques ideas use to evolve through living systems You will leave my talk with; Knowledge of where ideas generate How to apply creative ideas to innovative solutions (..)

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 7, 2016

According to a study, a darker office environment fosters superior creativity and raw idea generation. With a system in place to deal with incoming mail, documents and files should help you to work more efficiently and eliminate time wasting. ​ Click "READ MORE" to find out what the other 29 work productivity hacks are.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Embedded in a purpose-built dynamic social network, the CLOU system has a real-time activity feed, personal pages, and global views that provide a live map of the enterprise. Her simple web-based booking system was designed to allow any Dutch government worker from any agency in any location to work at any other government office.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2012

It's an industry awakening to a system that is no longer effective on its own for the way companies and people are managed today. Many of us already use crowdsourcing for idea generation and problem solving, but consider the power it has to change the way we manage our employees and organizational culture.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2008

Dittoheads: People who are in perfect alignment on an issue, am idea, or a belief system. Idea hamsters: people who always seem to have their idea generators running. Does this system come with LRF support?" (LRF Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The innovator: leadership as creative idea generation. They are very effective at setting up the structures and systems needed to support an organization’s objectives. These people are focused on the new. They possess a great capacity to solve extremely difficult problems. The processor: leadership as an exercise in efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

They have no problem generating ideas, including some that are potentially useful and novel. Furthermore, they are also generally able to access creative ideas generated by others. Where they fail, however, is at turning those ideas into actual innovations. To adapt is to make the world more predictable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Likewise, designers and social innovators have sought feedback from the populations they target, and have even looked to harvest the creative ideas generated by users who have improved products by tinkering with them.

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