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Innovation Roundup – 8-15-2014

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Categories: Innovate

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Here’s a sampling of some great articles about innovation from around the web: The Secret Weapon Of The Most Inventive Minds – I’ve noticed something about the most successful and innovative entrepreneurs and business people; they see frustration as opportunity—a chance to do something better, cheaper or faster. Why you Should Treat Business Model Innovation as […]

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Increasing Innovation with Improv Comedy – Reverse the Creative Process

Written by admin on August 14, 2014 - 1 Comment
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Reverse the Standard Creative Process

Being effective at improvisation isn’t just about accessing creativity. It’s also very much about applying a different creative process than most people are used to. Here is an improv comedy game that demonstrates this idea (I’ll explain how below): The standard creative process seems to be to start with a problem and then “think” of […]

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Interview: How to Increase Innovation NOW!

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Last week I posted a video of me interviewing Neen James on the topic of Thought Leadership. Neen returned the favor, so today I am posting a video of Neen interviewing me on the topic of Innovation: Here are a few things we talke about: A simple definition of innovation How improv comedy relates to […]

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Innovation Roundup – 8-8-2014

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Here’s a sampling of some great articles about innovation from around the web: Improv and Comedy Can Infuse Companies With an Inventive Spirit – On the surface, business and comedy could not be more different. But the performance skill sets used in comedy routines are directly relevant to creating and maintaining a strong business culture. Straight-laced […]

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Thought Leadership – Organize and Monetize Your Creativity and Innovation (Interview with Neen James)

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I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Neen James, an international productivity and Thought Leadership expert. On my blog and in my presentations I talk a lot about tapping into your creativity and using that creativity to be more innovative. Neen is an expert on helping people organize and monetize those great ideas your creativity […]

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Innovation Technique: Leverage the Power of “Spectacular Failure”

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Spectacular Failure

Failure, in general, is not a good thing. It is usually uncomfortable, painful, and the exact opposite of what we wanted. However, failure can be your “success secret weapon.” Especially when it’s not just basic failure, but rather when it’s Spectacular Failure!. “Spectacular Failure”? That sounds even worse than regular failure, doesn’t it? Maybe. But […]

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Innovation Roundup – 8-01-2014

Written by admin on August 1, 2014 - 0 Comments
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Here’s a sampling of some great articles about innovation from around the web: The Science Of Brainstorming – “But research continues to show that our hunt for the eureka moment may be in vain. The most recent example comes from Joel Chan and Christian Schunn of the University of Pittsburgh, who sought to understand how “thought […]

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Innovation Without Execution is Like a Taco Without Filling

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Innovation - best guess is irrelevant

Innovation is awesome. Innovation is also useless without execution. In 2012 Taco Bell introduced the Doritos Locos Tacos, a standard taco where the shell is made from Nacho Cheese Doritos. Brilliant! The Doritos Locos Tacos went on to went on to become Taco Bell’s most successful product launch ever, selling 100 million Tacos in 10 […]

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Increasing Innovation by Busting Your Comfort Zone (Guest Post by Ken Okel)

Written by admin on July 28, 2014 - 1 Comment
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Innovation Comfort Zone Cat Ladder

If you have seen me speak, you know my simple definition of innovation:  “Doing something new, or doing something old in a  new way.” In order to do something new or something old in a new way, you have to get out of your comfort zone. Staying in your comfort zone is the opposite of […]

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Innovation Technique: Throw it All Away, Make it Earn Its Way Back (Guest Post by Thom Singer)

Written by admin on July 22, 2014 - 2 Comments
Categories: Adapt, Innovate

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One of the biggest barriers to using innovation to take your business or career to the next level is the current success you are enjoying. If you try to innovate by clinging to what you are already doing, you begin the creative process already limiting yourself. You are far better off throwing it all away! […]

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