Five Causes of Innovation Blues
The key to innovation success is simple---innovation is nothing without exploration and exploitation.
Do Your Employees Need Passion?
If you’ve ever written a job description that calls for passionate, hard-working candidates, did you ever stop to think about what that means? Sure, having engaged and loyal employees is the ultimate goal of any company, but the word “passion” is loaded.
The Eight Attributes of Bottom-Up Innovation Leaders
Bottom-up innovation is fueled by many ideas initiated by employees, as opposed to top-down innovation, which is fueled by a strong vision - often by the company’s founder. Bottom-up innovation leaders are entrepreneurial, supported by management’s emphasis on creativity and a can-do culture, and often share these eight attributes.
5 Traits that Make a Good Leader
Whether leaders are the captain of a team, the head of a household or the president of a company, their quest usually revolves around one thing: success. Quality leadership skills are often hard to measure on a daily basis, but their long-term effects are obvious and undeniable. Leaders are a lot of things and contain many traits, but there are five essential habits that, if practiced and pursued in an honest and consistent fashion, can help turn anyone into a leader and enable them to create their own success.
Innovation Lessons Learned from Students
Here are some lessons I've learned about innovation from working with high school and college students. If their passion and enthusiasm is any indication, we have a bright future ahead!
Can we Dent the Universe, Too? 6 tips for Innovation Inspired by Steve Jobs
Jobs had a spectacular innovation compass; some of its directions can guide our inner innovators too, according to Andrew Sherman.
10 ways to expand your creative possibilities: The Free Thinking Method
Free Thinking Mode is a collection of best practices shared by the most creative companies and people Michelle Conrad and her team have come in contact with.
New paradigm of work requires a more whole-brained approach, says Michael Gelb
Accelerating change and complexity has resulted in ever greater demands on the individual's time and energy. To succeed today requires a balance of creative and pragmatic skills, explains creativity expert and author Michael Gelb.
The Innovative Leader Needs Passion
To mobilize your workers to support innovation, you can't just tell them to be passionate. You must model passion every time you speak, instructs Paul Sloane.
Tom Kelly explains how to cultivate personal innovation for life
Thanks to my friends on Twitter, I recently came across an excellent series of video clips from a lecture by Tom Kelly of Ideo to a class of college students at Stanford, in which he shares five essential strategies for cultivating and nurturing personal innovation throughout life.
Ten Top Tips for the Innovative Leader
If you want to drive innovation in your organization, then Paul Sloane has some suggestions to help you succeed.
How to nurture your creative passion
Do you have a big idea that you feel confident will change your world? Are you willing to take the risk of being audacious? According to Sandy Nelson, passion is the key to unleashing your creative energy.