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Why do so many attempts at innovative problem-solving fall flat? They target the wrong problem.
Companies like Interface prosper with a simple, sustainable brand mission. What can we learn from them, especially in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy?
Everyone’s an innovator. Okay, not everyone, but far more executives describe their organizations that way than you might think.
Speaking at the F.ounders conference in Dublin today, U2 lead signer Bono was effusive in his praise for grassroots social movements and the change they can effect on a global scale. The Irish rocker...
Via David Hain
I love paradox. Here’s an example: the best way to prepare for change is to decide what isn’t going to change. Several weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking to a gathering hosted by the Churchill Club in Silicon...
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A coach is required when you would like to accelerate your action through someone holding you accountable around an agreed set of predetermined outcomes over a predetermined time period.
A mentor is required when you would like to accelerate your knowledge by tapping into someone else’s network, experience and wisdom.
Via David Hain, Jean-Philippe D'HALLUIN
Leader (n) : Anyone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people or processes.
Manifesto is derived from the Italian word manifesto, itself derived from the Latin manifestum, meaning clear or conspicuous.
Via Charney Coaching & Consulting, Jean-Philippe D'HALLUIN
Recently, our Centre for India & Global Business at Cambridge University was privileged to host a talk by Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the former President of India. Like millions of Indians, I hold Dr Kalam in high esteem.
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If you are a member of Gen X, born between 1965 and 1976, you are often referred to as independent, self-reliant, mistrustful of institutions, and at times focused on your personal “back-up plan” – just in case things do not work out for you. But the one value most remembered for Gen Xers is the mantra of work-life balance. Gen Xers watched their parents make tough choices often favoring their career and then, just as they approached retirement, these parents were left without a back-up plan. So Gen Xers come to the workplace wanting flexibility in their job so they can devote time to their families and personal well-being. Enter the millennials, born between 1977 and 1997. They have morphed the idea of work-life balance into work-life blend. Instead of switching between professional mode and personal mode like Gen Xers, millennials are often in both modes at once!
Via Denis Pennel
Will Sliney, a graduate of Cork Institute of Technology, is a Comic Book Artist and Writer. His work on 'Star Wars the Clone Wars' broke records around Europ...
Via José Carlos
In a recent post, Dennis Goin described a new way of accelerating the implementation of new strategies and driving innovation.
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Employee engagement is “a heightened emotional connection that an employee feels for his or her organization, that influences him or her to exert greater discretionary effort to his or her work,” But what about you? If you are a leader, how engaged are you? It’s difficult to engage your employees if you yourself are not engaged. Here are 7 questions to assess your own engagement and suggestions for actions you can take to engage yourself.
Via Jean-Philippe D'HALLUIN
You'll understand customers a whole lot better with technology on your side.
While many people make no distinction between creativity and innovation, in reality there is a huge difference between the two. Not all bright ideas are innovative, even if they appear to be quite creative.
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Design Thinking is a process of bringing integrative thinking, experimentalism, collaboration and empathy into the design process in a structured way. In thi...
Via Edwin Rutsch, David Hain
There's more to working relationships than just the job at hand.
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“Why employee engagement?” is a question I’m frequently asked. “Isn’t that just soft stuff? What’s the point in making employees happy?
Via Jean-Philippe D'HALLUIN
8 Tests of #Collaboration Readiness – Part 2: The root cause of the two most common challenges to #innovation....
Via David Hain, Gurmeetsingh Mehtab
Maeve gives a great example of how sthinking like a novellist can help to understand and communicate to your audience. "Website: http://tedx.ehl.edu More talks: http://tinyurl.com/TEDxEHLtalks Maeve's own bestselling debut novel, War & Piste (published under a pseudonym), was ...
Change doesn't occur by magic, and if you want someone to change their behaviour, you need to adopt an effective approach that will encourage them to make the changes required. The challenge for business owners and managers seeking to change the behavious of individuals or teams, is to ensure that you have many levers that you can pull, to ensure that the required outcome is achieved. This excellent article, identifies 10 such levers, and suggests that leaders need to use them all to achieve lasting behavioural change.
Via Daniel Watson
Companies cannot remain stagnant.They must evolve or they will die... a TEDx talk fom Peter H. Diamandis Peter H. Diamandis is an American engineer, physician and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, the co-founder and chairman of Singularity University and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think.
Via Szabolcs Kósa
In an economy based on idea generation, it is up to you to keep your greatest assets--your awareness and creativity--nourished, fine-tuned, and ready at hand.
Via Peter Verschuere
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