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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
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. -
Creativity in Advertising: When It Works and When It Doesn't
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleDo highly creative ads really inspire people to buy products? Studies have found that creative messages get more attention and lead to positive attitudes... -
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 […] -
Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleReading about the future can help you invent it. -
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 […] -
Eureka Myth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn business lore, the eureka moment overshadows the more important matter of how an invention reaches the marketplace, says author Sir Harold Evans. -
Why Design Thinking Won't Save You
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhenever I see a business magazine glow about design thinking, as BusinessWeek has done recently with this special report, and which Harvard Business... -
Life's Work: An Interview with John Adams
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe composer and conductor on responding to the world through music and the struggle to always produce genuinely new, original works. -
Ai Weiwei
Creativity Magazine ArticleAi Weiwei is a multimedia artist and provocateur whose work has frequently challenged the Chinese government. His overtly political tweets and social activism (including his boycott of the Beijing Olympics after helping design its famed Bird’s Nest stadium) may have led to an 81-day detention last year—though the official charge was tax evasion. Still, he […] -
Technology Should Be About More than Efficiency
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To Get More Creative, Become Less Productive
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleManagers will have to choose. -
Turning Goals into Results: The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMost executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. They write vision statements, formalize procedures, and develop complicated incentive programs--all... -
What Are Conferences for? Richard Saul Wurman on Making Events Meaningful
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleConference designer Richard Saul Wurman describes his approach to assembling a memorable and inspirational gathering. -
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. -
Life's Work: An Interview with Dean Koontz
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDean Koontz is one of the world's most prolific and best-selling writers, with more than 120 novels to his name. During a difficult childhood, books were...
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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... -
LinkedIn: Transformation Driven From Within
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case discusses LinkedIn's corporate culture in 2012-2103 and the importance the professional networking company put on maintaining that culture as... -
School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price's... -
Mountain Dew: Selecting New Creative
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Highlights the key role of selecting creative in brand communications, the challenges of building a brand in a turbulent cultural environment, the challenges... -
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Describes the reorganization of the drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making... -
OpenIDEO
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case describes OpenIDEO, an online offshoot of IDEO, one of the world's leading product design firms. OpenIDEO leverages IDEO's innovative design... -
E Ink
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details E Ink is a high-technology start-up attempting to revolutionize print communication through electronic ink displays. The founders and top managers of... -
Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization
28.00View Details From the author of "The Little Black Book of Innovation," a new guide for using the power of habit to build a culture of innovation. Leaders have experimented... -
How IKEA's Strategy Was Formed
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case describes how IKEA's distinctive strategy was formed over a period of about 30 years (late 1940s to late 1970s). It describes how the various... -
Chef Davide Oldani and Ristorante D'O
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case examines the unique business model of Ristorante D'O, a high end gourmet restaurant located near Milan, Italy. Founded by Chef Davide Oldani,... -
Design: More Than a Cool Chair
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This introduction to the Design industry includes definitions, and industry statistics, as well as descriptions of geographic clustering, design education,... -
The World Wrestling Federation (B): Vince McMahon vs. Bret "the Hitman" Hart
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IN1075. Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation faces a serious threat to survival from the deep pockets of media mogul Ted Turner... -
The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living
28.00View Details When The Monk and the Riddle was released two years ago, Silicon Valley was the place to be. Today, the once-booming Internet gold rush epitomized by... -
Turning Goals into Results: The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Strategy & Execution Book9.99View Details Most executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. But they install layers of stultifying bureaucracy that prevent them from realizing it. In this article,... -
McKinsey and LUNAR: Acquiring a Design Firm
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case explores the possible acquisition by McKinsey &Company of design company LUNAR in response to the new directions management consulting is taking.... -
Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Gucci Group's CEO had to decide if his decentralized management style was the most effective philosophy in an economic downturn. The sharing of customer... -
Innovation Magic
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Why do certain product and service experiences seem like magic, making them all but destined for success, while other items languish on store shelves?... -
Launching the New MINI (Multimedia Case)
Sales & Marketing Tool25.00View Details Focuses on how strategy is transformed into creative branding materials. Reports on the development of a wide variety of brand communication materials... -
Leadership and Teaming
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal... -
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...
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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.” […] -
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... -
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? -
LinkedIn: Transformation Driven From Within
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case discusses LinkedIn's corporate culture in 2012-2103 and the importance the professional networking company put on maintaining that culture as... -
Use Tension and Conflict to Create Breakthrough Products
Creativity Digital ArticleOppositional goals can actually increase creativity. -
How Iconoclasts Think
Creativity AudioGregory Berns, the Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics at Emory University and author of “Iconoclast.” -
Creativity in Advertising: When It Works and When It Doesn't
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleDo highly creative ads really inspire people to buy products? Studies have found that creative messages get more attention and lead to positive attitudes... -
School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price's... -
Doodling Helped This Artist Deal with Depression
Leadership & Managing People InterviewInstagram artist Chuck Mullin shares her mental health journey.