January 2012
“I tend to not like offering up checklists as blog posts, you know those one...”
– From: Paul4innovating’s Blog — Innovation jobs-to-be-done — The Chief Innovation Officer’s Agenda
By Paul Hobcraft
““Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation. How else can the individual...”
– From: Forbes — Innovation Is A State of Mind
By Beth Comstock, Senior VP and CMO, G.E.
Blogging Is Making A Comeback For Marketers →
Via tacanderson:
Despite the recent moves to integrate social media into search, social media is fleeting. Status updates flow like the river and are gone. To me, blogging (even on sites like Tumblr) gives more permanence to your thoughts and words. A blog allows you to build a platform and establish a presence in a way that status updates can’t. Of course the converse is also true. Blogging...
“For anything to get done in a modern business, someone needs to be responsible...”
– From: Innovation Excellence — Do We Need an Innovation Profession?
By Jeffrey Phillips, who is one of my co-authors to the 2011 book, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts, edited by Paul Sloane, with a foreword by Henry Chesbrough. I co-wrote the chapter,...
“An imperative for innovators is the creation of value. Aligning yourself to...”
– From: Collaborative Innovation — The Shape of Things to Come – Size, Form & Mass in Innovation-capable Cultures
By Drew Marshall
“The bottom line is, the biggest hurdle for a community manager, social media...”
– From: TheFutureBuzz.com — Priorities: Curing Social Media Overload
By John Boitnott
This post is being shared in honor of Community Managers’ Day!
“Emotional attachment prompts some incredibly strong bonds, a host of clear...”
– From: Paul4innovating’s Blog — Those disruptive moments when you simply need to let go
By Paul Hobcraft
“To create Sabi, a McKinsey-trained former VC paired with all-star designer Yves...”
– From: FastCo.Design — 5 Innovation Lessons From A Breakthrough Brand Aimed At Aging Americans
By Cliff Kuang
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Brainstorm Methods — Nominal and Reverse the Problem:
A Tutorial From Paul Sloane on How to Use These Creativity tools
Expert facilitator Paul Sloane shows you how to use the Nominal Method and Reverse the Problem to accelerate your idea generation.
Credit: Paul Sloane Copyright: Paul Sloane
Paul Sloane is Editor of the 2011 book published by Kogan Page, A Guide to Open Innovation and...
“When we’re creative, we feel we are living more fully than during the rest...”
– From: Psychology Today — The Creative Personality
Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.
By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, published on July 01, 1996 - last reviewed on June 13, 2011
“The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) declared ‘outstanding’ 2011 Christmas sales...”
– From: Cirrus-Connect.com — John Lewis Sales Prove Principles Can Pay
By Nicky Little
“A syndrome of selfishness, built on a series of half-truths, has taken hold of...”
– From: MIT Sloan Management Review — Beyond Selfishness
By Henry Mintzberg, Robert Simons and Kunal Basu
““Betterness: Economics for Humans” is a powerful call to arms for a...”
– From: Harvard Business Review / HBS Press Book — Betterness: Economics for Humans, by Umair Haque
Invisible People — Our Fellow Americans. They...
“How Would You Handle a Radical Idea?
It is Easy to Ridicule Concepts that Look...”
– From: Yahoo! Voices — voices.yahoo.com — How Would You Handle a Radical Idea?
By Paul Sloane
I’m honored to be a contributing author to a recently published book edited by Paul Sloane, A Guide to Open Innovation & Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts, along with some of my...
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“By looking at the eight possible revenue models, writes Jump’s Ryan Baum,...”
– From: FastCo.Design — Want To Upend An Entire Industry? Change Its Revenue Stream
By Ryan Baum
“We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot)
“I’d just finished a workshop on Business Model Canvas about gaining clarity in...”
– From: Paul4innovating’s Blog — A Business Model Canvas Set to Explode
By Paul Hobcraft
“Entitlement is pervasive in American culture. The athletes and coaches who...”
– From: Harvard Business Review / Blogs — Battling Entitlement, the Innovation-Killer
By Whitney Johnson
“Longtime blogger Jeffrey Phillips of OVO Innovation has just published...”
– From: Collaborative Innovation — 5 Questions with Jeffrey Phillips, Author of ‘Relentless Innovation’
By Renee Hopkins
Please note: Jeffrey Phillips and Renee Hopkins are also two of my fellow contributing authors to the 2011 book, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing: Advice from...
“How can I reconcile the numbers and people? What we have to learn is to give...”
– From: JoseBaldaia.com / Intuinovare — When organizations talk about innovation and do not talk about people…
By Jose Baldaia
“In Search of Real Innovation…
Innovation! If there’s one word that can...”
– From: Innovation Excellence — The Innovation Genome Project
By Bill O’Connor
“Doing good and meaningful work and earning a good living are not mutually...”
– From: Guardian Professional / Social enterprise network — Why do dropouts make good social entrepreneurs?
By Claire Taylor
“Many of today’s best companies arose out of lucky mistakes. That’s...”
– From: Inc.com — You Need to Make More Mistakes
By Paul Schoemaker
“The future of business is pure chaos. Here’s how you can survive—and...”
– From: Fast Company — This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business
By Robert Safian
“A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we’ve seen. And the Internet...”
– From: Edge / Conversation — Infinite Stupidity
By Mark D. Pagel
“The growth of the innovation coach:
I predict innovation coaching will grow...”
– From: Paul4innovating’s Blog — The value of having an Innovation Coach
By Paul Hobcraft
If you want more information on Creativity and Innovation Coaching programs and services offered by Creative Sage™, and to discuss what benefits we can offer your organization, please visit our web site...
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“I had a recent discussion with a corporate innovation leader who would like to...”
– From: 15inno — 80% of Innovation Projects Fail – What Should We Do?
By Stefan Lindegaard, who is also one of my fellow contributing authors to the 2011 book, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts (published by Kogan Page), edited by Paul Sloane, with a...
“Silicon Valley venture capitalist Randy Haykin has started a new organization,...”
– From: WSJ / Venture Capital Dispatch — The Daily Start-Up: Eved Nabs Cash To Transform Meetings And Events
“It’s that time of year — today is the first day to apply for the 2013 Skoll...”
– From: Skoll Foundation — Time to Apply for the 2013 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
Silicon Valley Innovation Institute Event, January... →
While U.S. legislators are busy arguing about whether or not the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has the Constitutional right to regulate air pollution, a massive ecological design…
