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All-Hands Meeting: How to Ensure Yours is Amazing and Worth the Investment

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s the ROI that comes from curated conversations and spontaneous interactions, those electric moments of innovation that happen when your team is in the same room. A side conversation can lead to the next big idea or micro-innovation, and a shared laugh can forge a bond stronger than any Slack thread.

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Understand Your Entrepreneurial Superpower

Skip Prichard

Jonathan Littman collaborated with IDEO on the bestsellers The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation. We saw something new taking hold a few years ago – San Francisco had usurped Silicon Valley as the new center of tech innovation. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films.

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Leading in a New Direction - 3 Techniques for Thinking up New Business Ideas

Great Leadership By Dan

Renters will travel to a central location where DVDs are stored -renters will come to the DVDs. ? Incubation’ is more than just ‘sleeping on it’. Let’s look at a personal example to illustrate how to use the technique - How I used incubation to come up a name for my online suggestion box company – ‘Vetter’.

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What It’s Like Being a Business Traveler in Iran

Harvard Business Review

But after spending the past two years traveling across the Arab world (and writing a book about innovation and entrepreneurship in the region), I also knew how younger generations and new technologies can redefine business and engagement across the board. At the same time, there is a rising independent start-up community as well.

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The Benefits of Taking a Slower Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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When Ingenuity Saves Lives

Harvard Business Review

The incubators sold in Western countries cost up to $20,000 and require electricity — which is unreliable in developing nations. Enter jugaad innovation — a cost-effective approach for creating affordable products and services using limited resources. For us, innovation is a dynamic process that never ends.''.