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As Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, I live a passionate personal mission to cause the spontaneous combustion of creativity, innovation, and compassionate intelligence everywhere!

At Creative Sage™, we help corporations, nonprofit organizations, professional associations, project teams, entrepreneurs, consultants, authors, artists, performers and others to create outstanding marketing strategies, communications, solutions, services and products. We design dynamic, cutting-edge innovation programs that are tailored to our clients' individual needs for maximum return on investment in innovation management.

We coach and mentor executives, and we also coach accomplished, creative professionals and their organizations to revolutionize the concept of "retirement" and create powerful new lives, projects and initiatives, including Social Entrepreneur projects and partnerships between corporations, nonprofits and philanthropists. We use highly creative and effective methods to help people in mid-life or at any age to navigate transitions in business or in life. We'll coach your inner innovator out of hiding...we help you innovate to be great!

Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates was our original company name, where we've focused on marketing communications, public relations, fundraising, performing arts presentation, and management consulting in the entertainment industry and nonprofit arts. Known for our innovative approaches and story angles, and our strategic capabilities, we have also served a variety of business and technology clients, including working in various capacities on multimedia and marketing projects for Fortune 500s, major universities, healthcare companies, environmental/sustainability, and trade associations. We've also added social media and Internet marketing and PR to our mix of services. We bring your message to the world, and the world to you. Let's start a conversation!

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I'm honored to be a contributing author to the 2011 best-selling business book, A Guide to Open Innovation & Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts, along with some of my innovation colleagues from #Innochat (Twitter Innovation chat and web site); edited by Paul Sloane, with a foreword by Henry Chesbrough. You can order it here: http://amzn.to/OI_CS
I co-wrote the chapter, "Building the Culture for Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing," with Gwen Ishmael and Boris Pluskowski — more information about all of the co-authors and the contents of this book at: http://bit.ly/OI_CS_Google

Aug 03

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In [the book] Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders, Joel Manby provides a roadmap for any business leader seeking to transform the way he or she interacts with coworkers, employees, and customers.

Manby, formerly the CEO of Saab Motors at GM, is the CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment, the largest family-owned operator of theme parks in the US. Manby’s work provides valuable insights for practitioners of innovation. When driving an innovation program or even pursuing a single idea, we often forget that we are engaged in an activity that is little different from the thousands of other work-related tasks that those of us in the business world face on a daily basis. We sometimes become so focused on the power of innovation, or the excitement of pursuing something incredibly novel, that we lose sight of the importance of exhibiting the qualities of leadership in our day-to-day interactions with members of the team working on pursuing innovation. Manby’s “Seven Principles for Effective Leaders,” explained in the context of work in the innovation process, can serve as sound reminders of the types of behaviors we need to demonstrate.

…A final thought for innovators comes from a quote that Manby notes appears on the desks of many of his employees:

“The enthusiasm of your customer’s experience can never rise any higher than the enthusiasm of your own employees.”

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From: Innovation Excellence — Love Works and Innovation

By Scott Bowden

Source: Joel Manby, Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Books, May 2012).

At Creative Sage™, we specialize in modular, custom-designed innovation processes and solutions for each of our clients — you won’t get a “cookie-cutter,” “one-size-fits-all” solution from us! Please give us a call if you want to explore how our solutions match your organization’s or work team’s values and needs. We also help facilitate the management of transitions and other workplace challenges. You can reach us in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area, at 1-510-845-5510; or email us to arrange for an initial phone conversation. You can also visit our web site and blogs for more information. We look forward to hearing from you!