Category: Team & Culture
Your Next Business Challenge: Solve a Problem Shared by Many
People get jobs by solving someone’s problem. People build businesses with systemic ways to solve a problem shared by many others. Just knowing about a problem is not enough. You…
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What it Takes to Empower Front Line Employees
Article | Association for Talent Development | George Bradt | June 4, 2013Click Here to Read Article
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Innovation Tips From Richard Branson, John Mackey, Bobbi Brown And Others
The holy grail of innovation is the Eureka moment - the sudden breakthrough. Those moments don't happen in vacuums. They have preludes and second acts. So prepare in advance, focus…
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Innovation: Combatting the creativity crisis
Happy accidents are wonderful things. However, there's been a long-term decline in creative skills at the same time that the need for creativity is increasing. Yarrow Kraner founded the Hatch…
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Innovation Follow Through – Richard Branson
Richard Branson has achieved remarkable success taking the Virgin brand into industries "out of frustration" with existing record, airline, and telecommunication companies and the like.
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Innovation Follow Through – Diane von Furstenberg
DVF's ongoing success is directly related to Von Furstenberg's drive to succeed on her own (at first), prove she was not a one-shot wonder (later), and leave a strong brand…
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Innovation Breakthroughs: Focus on unsolved problem
Many of Bobbi Brown's innovations have come from thinking "It would make so much sense if..." She describes these as "Random ideas mixed with common sense."
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Innovation Prompt: Invite Others
John Mackey is certain that Whole Foods must continue to innovate to stay ahead of its competition.
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Innovation Prompt: Look at things with a child like innocence
Neri Oxman suggests the beginner's mind is filled with innocence
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