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Your Company Is A Well Of Ideas – Stop Poisoning It

Strategy Driven

They all claim they have a problem with generating enough ideas, and they’re all wrong. They already have all the ideas they could even need, and so do you. You see, the problem is never idea generation. Because it isn’t more ideas you need, it’s not killing the ones you already have.

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Teams and Thinking Style

Coaching Tip

While teambuilding and sensitivity training workshops abound, they typically deliver little in the way of long-term impact, often because they overlook an essential factor driving team performance: thinking. How do these different modes of thinking affect team dynamics, process flows, idea generation and problem-solving approaches? •

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Is Your Innovation Problem Really a Strategy Problem?

Harvard Business Review

I was running a workshop with a multinational engineering firm when I ran into a perfect example of an air sandwich, which illustrates this point. Sometimes, the problem that we think we’re solving isn’t the real problem that we face. Higher scores on the scale of 1-3 mean that they believe they are stronger in those areas.

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Number of ideas generated. It can be easy to count the number of innovation workshops held at company outposts around the world, or tally revenues from add-on services developed by an innovation group and then handed over to the sales force. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. stage to the next. The vision thing.

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Buffalo's Social Media Event of the Year!

Mike Cardus

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. Social Marketing for Team Building.

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When I Get Blocked I Walk On Rocks

Mike Cardus

When I left my old employer the portable path came with me, and has served an my calming, thought provoking, idea generation, slowing down – best practice. 45 minutes of walking on the rocks, drinking water, and listing ideas on the chalk board…the process is mapped out and now I have the ideas and table of contents developed.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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”. That workshop in coaching skills is a long way from the world of the factory floor.

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