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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

Sep 14

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We are asking you for 10 minutes of innovation practice a day. For innovation mojo—as in caring relationships—strength training and, uh…let’s say pancake making, consistency trumps having only the infrequent big gesture. Two big reasons for this:

* The numbers game – author Mark Levy says, “Your best thought comes embedded in chunks of your worst thought. What’s the only way to reliably mine your best thought? Write a lot. Think ‘quantity.’” Nobel laureate Linus Pauling stated it this way: “The best way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and then bring the best ones forward.”

* Myelin – that’s right, myelin. Consistency brings strength and increased efficiency to our neural connections through the accumulation of myelin—the protective sheath that develops when we fire connections consistently. It’s easier to do additional neural building where some solid scaffolding already exists. Myelin is one of the key physiological correlates to talent/proficiency. Start building some more innovation-triggered and innovation-supporting myelin!

Plus, you’ll be even better now in the Big Innovation Event and can push even further. Think of it like training for an innovation triathlon – you will want to have the creative muscles ready to take on the challenge.

[Excerpt from Part 1 of a 4-part series of posts from our colleagues at Ideas To Go. Click on the link to read Part 1 of the series, then check the left side bar on their blog to find the links to Parts 2, 3, and 4.]

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From: Ideas to Go — Making Time for Innovation

By Adam Hansen