by New & Improved | Feb 28, 2016 | Innovation Culture, Innovative Teams, Tools & Techniques
There are 12 strategic action areas that wise executives need to actively attend to in order to create a culture of innovation within their organizations. For each strategy, there is a sweet spot. None can be ignored, but some may be more important to your...
by New & Improved | Oct 23, 2015 | Innovation Culture, Innovative Teams, Leadership Values
People are: Basically productive at work because they need to make money. More productive at work when they feel like they are making progress (Read “The Progress Principle” by Harvard Researcher, Theresa Amabile). Most productive when they find meaning in...
by New & Improved | Oct 20, 2015 | Innovative Teams, Top 20 blog posts
“If you kNOw there’s NO curiosity, there’s NO learning, there’s NO listening, there’s NO innovation!” In a previous post, we laid out a set of required values for leaders of sustained innovation. These are the key values necessary for being a leader — no matter where...
by New & Improved | Dec 19, 2014 | Innovation Culture, Innovative Teams
Congratulations! You’ve just been appointed to the team to carry out your dream project: the one project that means more to you than anything in the world. The passion you have for seeing the project through to its successful conclusion is unparalleled. Nothing is...
by New & Improved | Sep 13, 2012 | Innovation Culture, Innovative Teams, Leadership Values
With rare exceptions, creative thinking of the individual (you and me) can only lead to innovation if there is creative collaboration between you, me and others. We need each other to bounce around ideas, to build better thinking, to apply rigorous critical thinking...
by New & Improved | Aug 27, 2012 | Innovation Culture, Innovative Teams, Leadership Values
If you are responsible for building capacity for innovation at your organization, then the #1 challenge you face rests in the minds of your workforce. It’s no small feat getting people comfortable feeling uncomfortable with the temporary sense of being out of their...
