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The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick
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Afraid to Innovate? Create an Airlock
Innovation Digital ArticleI gave a talk at the Canadian Marketing Association in Toronto last week. Leaving the hall, I fell into step with a young marketer. She seemed stressed. “How are you doing?” I asked. “I liked your talk,” she said, “but it’s hard. Everyone wants to be innovative but no one wants to make a mistake.” […] -
To Find Creative Solutions, Look Outside Your Industry
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Use Tension and Conflict to Create Breakthrough Products
Creativity Digital ArticleOppositional goals can actually increase creativity. -
Better Brainstorming
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleGreat innovators have long known that the secret to unlocking a better answer is to ask a better question. Applying that insight to brainstorming exercises... -
Could Pixar’s ‘Secret Story Guidelines’ Work for Your Team?
Creativity Digital ArticleBelieve it or not, Pixar was once a scrappy startup. The multi-billion dollar juggernaut with a near-perfect record of churning out hit after hit today was once “a bunch of guys going on their gut” according to Andrew Stanton, a co-founding filmmaker with the company whose credits include writing and directing Wall E and Finding […] -
The Four Worst Innovation Assassins
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIs there a corporate leader who doesn't extol the virtues of innovation these days? Yet if innovation is so important, why do so many companies have so... -
Encouraging Suggestive Behavior
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleProfessors Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres recommend a companywide "open" suggestion box that will lead to better ideas. -
How to Free Your Innate Creativity
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To Innovate, Create “Hunch-Friendly” Environments
Creativity Digital ArticleIf you want creativity, you need to encourage it, and allow time for it to percolate. That was the focus of this year’s Front End of Innovation conference in Boston. Steve Johnson, New Media professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, talked about the importance of creating a “hunch-friendly environment.” That is, give your employees […] -
Managing Your Innovation Portfolio
Innovation Magazine ArticlePeople throughout your organization are energetically pursuing the new. But does all that activity add up to a strategy? -
Technology Should Be About More than Efficiency
Creativity Digital ArticleIt’s time to make a choice. -
Giving Up Is the Enemy of Creativity
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe best ideas take time. -
How Introverts Can Become Better Innovators
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhether you are trying to create a new product, solve problems more effectively, become the most successful company in your industry, or find creative... -
How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMany people believe that good ideas are rarer and more valuable than good people. Ed Catmull, president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, couldn't... -
Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategic planning has fallen from the pedestal it occupied when it came on the scene in the mid-1960s. Strategic planning failed because it is not the... -
One Size Does Not Fit All in Innovation (and Never Will)
Innovation Digital ArticleI’m worried that the discussion about innovation is losing its vitality and that a handful of beliefs are becoming dangerous dogmas. Two that worry me the most are: Innovation and design should be user-centered — i.e., users are the first and foremost source of insights. Innovation processes should, therefore, start from observation of mainstream or […] -
How Urban Physics Can Improve Your Workplace
Workspaces design Digital ArticleJust look at what Google and Groupon have done to boost productivity. -
Summer Reading Picks from Dan Pink, Seth Godin, Eliot Spitzer, and More
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLast week, there was a wonderful essay in The New York Times about a leadership program created by the old Bell System back in 1952. The all-powerful... -
Why We Hide Some of Our Best Work
Communication Digital ArticleToo much transparency can backfire.
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The Art of Being Indispensable at Work: Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done
28.00View Details What's the secret to being indispensable--a true go-to person--in today's workplace? With new technology, constant change and uncertainty, and far-flung... -
The World Wrestling Federation (A): Vince McMahon vs. Bret "the Hitman" Hart
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation faces a serious threat to survival from the deep pockets of media mogul Ted Turner and Time-Warner, Inc. McMahon... -
School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details In September 2022, Price and his team evaluated the past year's strategies to increase Method App adoption and discussed new initiatives to consider. -
Trisha Wilson of Wilson & Associates
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Texan entrepreneur Trisha Wilson has founded an interior design firm and watched it grow into one of the most successful firms in the hospitality design... -
elBulli: The Taste of Innovation
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Ferran Adrià, chef at elBulli, the highest-ranked restaurant in the world for two consecutive years, faces two related decisions. First, Adrià and his... -
Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of Organizations
12.95View Details In this collection of 35 recent essays, Handy shares his reflections on a changing world, a world in which we can be certain only of uncertainty. To plan... -
Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently
25.00View Details No organization can survive without iconoclasts -- innovators who single-handedly upturn conventional wisdom and manage to achieve what so many others... -
The Medici Effect, With a New Preface and Discussion Guide: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
28.00View Details Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory... -
Dansk Designs Ltd.
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Dansk Designs Ltd., a supplier of high quality, highly designed tableware products, plans to enter a new product area in housewares. Past growth and anticipated... -
Beyond Collaboration Overload: Tools for Working Smarter, Getting Ahead, and Restoring Your Well-Being
119.00View Details We all need to collaborate to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. But the wrong kind of collaboration is hurting our performance.... -
Dragonfly Therapeutic Retreats: Crafting a Winning Proposition
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Georgie Yam arrived in Shanghai in the heat of summer in 2001. He was there on a mission: to develop the market and establish a distribution network for... -
The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown
30.00View Details A science-backed guide for navigating and thriving through uncertainty--based on interviews and insights from world-renowned leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs,... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads for Executives 8-Volume Collection
175.00View Details You want the most important ideas for executives all in one place. Now you can have them--in a set of HBR's 10 Must Reads, available as an 8-volume paperback... -
DDB Mudra Group: Transformative Growth
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case traces the evolution of the advertising firm DDB Mudra from its founding as an independent "Indian" agency to its current position of being the... -
Kay Sunderland: Making the Grade at Attain Learning
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Kay Sunderland is an account director at Attain Learning Inc., a business training solutions company. In January 2011, one of Attain's most important... -
Teaming at Disney Animation
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Jonathan Geibel, Director of Systems at Walt Disney Animation Studios (hereafter referred to as Disney Animation), walked through the workspace occupied... -
Reckitt Benckiser: Fast and Focused Innovation
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Since its 1999 merger Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a global consumer goods company, led by its CEO Bart Becht, RB developed a reputation for rapid product... -
Camper: Imagination is not Expensive
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Camper is one of Spain's most well known brands. Throughout its 30-year history, Camper has been known for its innovative designs, approach to outsourcing,... -
Moods of Norway
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Describes a young fashion company competing in a variety of unconventional ways, many "experience economy" related. Moods fronts their brand with the... -
Marketing James Patterson
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Can a successful novelist use direct-to-consumer marketing to grow his brand? The author, who in a previous career ran a major advertising agency, uses...
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Doodling Helped This Artist Deal with Depression
Leadership & Managing People InterviewInstagram artist Chuck Mullin shares her mental health journey. -
The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick
Creativity Digital ArticleThe secret sauce is “socialstructing.” -
Afraid to Innovate? Create an Airlock
Innovation Digital ArticleI gave a talk at the Canadian Marketing Association in Toronto last week. Leaving the hall, I fell into step with a young marketer. She seemed stressed. “How are you doing?” I asked. “I liked your talk,” she said, “but it’s hard. Everyone wants to be innovative but no one wants to make a mistake.” […] -
To Find Creative Solutions, Look Outside Your Industry
Innovation Digital ArticleWhy gamble on untested strategies when you could quickly apply an approach that’s already been proven elsewhere? -
Use Tension and Conflict to Create Breakthrough Products
Creativity Digital ArticleOppositional goals can actually increase creativity. -
Better Brainstorming
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleGreat innovators have long known that the secret to unlocking a better answer is to ask a better question. Applying that insight to brainstorming exercises... -
The Art of Being Indispensable at Work: Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done
28.00View Details What's the secret to being indispensable--a true go-to person--in today's workplace? With new technology, constant change and uncertainty, and far-flung... -
Could Pixar’s ‘Secret Story Guidelines’ Work for Your Team?
Creativity Digital ArticleBelieve it or not, Pixar was once a scrappy startup. The multi-billion dollar juggernaut with a near-perfect record of churning out hit after hit today was once “a bunch of guys going on their gut” according to Andrew Stanton, a co-founding filmmaker with the company whose credits include writing and directing Wall E and Finding […] -
The Four Worst Innovation Assassins
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIs there a corporate leader who doesn't extol the virtues of innovation these days? Yet if innovation is so important, why do so many companies have so... -
Encouraging Suggestive Behavior
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleProfessors Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres recommend a companywide "open" suggestion box that will lead to better ideas.