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Would Steve Jobs Have Fired Thomas Edison?
My last blog post, by far, was the most viral piece I’ve written in four years of blogging. Provocative titles and edgy content seem to win readers. And it would appear that creative style is a hot...
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Why Stepping Up as Innovation Team Leader is Insane
It’s easy to understand why many managers are not interested at all in heading up an innovation team. Saying no is the sane choice. The truth is Innovation Team Leadership is usually a thankless job....
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Six Reasons Not To Fire Steve Jobs
Jobs and Sculley before it hit the fan Ask John Sculley, the man who fired Steve Jobs — would he do it again? Probably. As Michael Corleone once said about a fellow mobster taking sides against him...
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Why Structured Creativity for Business?
I was doing a training session this past week and I was confronted by one of my students. I was giving an overview of CPS* which is a framework for structured creative problem solving. Someone asked...
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Ten Ideas for Using Innovation Film Clips
Jack Black in Envy, touting a dog poop vaporizer I’ve written an article on Innovation in movies — Inspiring Innovation Films: a Top Ten List. It’s been published on the Innovation Excellence portal —...
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The Innovation Metronome
Like a good guitar player — innovation has rhythm. There is no achievement without hard work. There is no breakthrough innovation without hard work. Innovation happens when you practice with...
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Eleven Weird Ways to Create Innovation Culture
Eleven Weird Ways to Create Innovation Culture Lately I’ve been seeing the glass half empty when it comes to innovation topics. I want everyone to know that, wow, can I ever be positive. In fact,...
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People Got To Be Free
Power. It’s not something people talk about in the context of innovation. They talk about Leadership, Change, Management, and Teams — but they rarely talk about what’s behind all of those concepts,...
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21 Rules for Innovation Team Building
I revised this “rule of thumb” list for a client and she suggested I re-share it in a blog post. This list is the accumulated wisdom of many years and it includes thinking from colleagues in the...
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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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