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Category Archives: Innovation

Roundup: Run them up the flagpole

Friday, December 21, 2007

That’s what you do with ideas, to see whether people start to salute them. Today’s roundup is about how - and how well - this is done, today. . .

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The juggling act

Monday, November 5, 2007

Many of us from the baby boomer generation wryly comment about how hard it can be to juggle life’s competing demands on us. But the truth is, we are typically more concerned about juggling work’s competing demands - life is just a spectator at the show. Or, rather, life is the show, and we keep missing the curtain. The interesting thing is that, while we genuinely rue our inability to have it all, we criticize the younger generations - often quite harshly - which try to take a more balanced approach to life and work.

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Random Day 5: The roots of creativity

Monday, August 13, 2007

This, of course, is a much-hyped topic these days. Like leadership, there is a tendency to associate it with individuals, and to encourage firms to hire people who test well for creativity, or to manipulate them in such a way that creativity results. But also like leadership, innovation in organizations is not principally an individual characteristic - it is an organizational one. . .

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Creating creativity

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Creativity is an important element of innovation, and one that business managers are struggling to find ways to incorporate into their businesses. But you don’t just “do” creativity, or delegate it to specific “creative” individuals - you generate it using tried and tested business thinking.

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Off-the-shelf innovation

Monday, June 18, 2007

Innovativeness is often taught as a personal characteristic, a rare quality difficult to achieve, accessible only by specially gifted visionaries or leaders. Nonsense. It is available in every organization, and to every manager. All that’s needed is understanding that fact, and how to manage innovation. . .

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