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Nine Ways to Play at Work
Nine Ways to Play At Work (see list below) The idea that one should invoke a sense of play around challenges is not a new one. Tim Brown of IDEO did that great TED speech on play, and there have been...
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Innovation Strategy Power Tools
Challenge Mapping & IdeaKeg Do you want to cut through the clutter when it comes to innovation strategy? Are you sorting through plans for year-end strategy and ideation sessions? Are you at the...
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Five Ways Incivility Decapitates Innovation
A Culture of Incivility Harms USA Innovation Five Ways Incivility “Decapitates” Innovation The recent flap around Kathy Griffin’s posting a picture of a fake severed head, of our President, was a sad...
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Seven Ways to Prepare for Effective Brainstorming
Want an Innovation Breakthrough? Prepare, Then Brainstorm Most brainstorming doesn’t work. The literature bashing brainstorming is extensive. Sessions often fail, and there are many reasons. Ideas are...
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Innovation Training Under Utilized
Training Accelerates Innovation 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. That’s what McKinsey says in this...
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Innovate Where You Are — and With Who You Have
Off-Site Innovation can indeed spur creativity I like what Cardinal Health and Crimson Cup are doing in Columbus, OH with offsite innovation spaces. I like the attention they’ve paid to team diversity...
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Improv for Business
Improv is a Swiss Army Knife for Problem Solving I just completed another workshop for high level executives in the use of Improv for Problem Solving. Most of the group were skeptical at the start. It...
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Creativity Is Where Innovation Starts
Build Innovation From The Ground Up Creative Thinking Can Be Trained Train Creativity First, Innovation Next It’s mind numbing all the literature I read about innovation. I’m also a bit weary of...
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Momentum Team Effectiveness Training
Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential...
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Innovation By Committee
Innovation Lessons from Improv Shakespeare The Creative Power of High Function Teams is Astonishing, Rare, and, Possible Getting Beyond “Group Think” Takes Training If you don’t think group creativity...
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