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Innovation happens at the seams
Innovation happens at the seams where we transform our view of the work we do.
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Reframe The Problem: Why I Left The Limo In Copenhagen & The Garden Hose Insight
Enjoy your Transform-to-Lead Strategy podcast message: To come up with a new solution and create a breakthrough strategy you must first ask a new question. To join our Transform2Lead circle and receive special insights and strategies not available elsewhere email me with subject line – Transform2Lead. © Aviv Shahar
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Innovation DNA – Shai Agassi
Watch below an inspirational Shai Agassi vision at TED to decipher his innovative DNA code: 1. The question. Ask a new question or reframe the question in a new way: How would you run a whole country without oil? 2. The boundaries. Eliminate the implausible (no ethanol / no hydrogen) and define the boundaries: A total solution (entire country) electrical, more convenient, more affordable. 3....
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Innovation Leadership At Google
Here are the steps of the innovation process at Google as distilled from this conversation of Marissa Mayer, V.P. of Search Product and User Experience with Charlie Rose. Innovation steps: Step One: Idea Step Two: Prototype Step Three: Build a team Step Four: Productize Step Five: Iterate Other key aspects of Google’s leadership: 1. Broad mission 2. Hiring great people: Smart x get things done...
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The Entrepreneur DNA – Reid Hoffman Of Linkedin
What is the DNA of entrepreneurial success? Here are the five points, the DNA of entrepreneurial success I distilled from Reid Hoffman of Linkedin.com in a conversation with Charlie Rose. 1. Work on a great idea 2. Develop effective execution 3. Commit to change the world 4. Exercise intelligent risk taking 5. Manage your network
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Capture Creativity
To generate lots of creative ideas you must develop the practice of capturing your creativity. Change, transformation, innovation begin with capturing the idea and then putting it to work. 1. Listen to your ideas. Develop a practice of paying attention to new thoughts, ideas, questions. New ideas turn up anywhere, any time. Creative ideas turn up when I run, when I swim, in the shower, just...
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The Value Of A Strategy Summit
What Executives say about the experience and value of a Strategy Summit… Roger Bhalla Tom Mitchell Carol Hess-Nickels David Conrad Jonathan Kaye Melissa Bargainer Matt Wagner © Aviv Shahar
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Innovation – The Third Engine
“Economists and business leaders across the political spectrum are slowly coming to an agreement: Innovation is the best—and maybe the only—way the U.S. can get out of its economic hole.” tells us Business Week In “Can America Invent Its Way Back?” . It then asserts that “innovation has fallen short of its promise in recent years”. We believe we know why. In our work with...
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Do You See Constellations Where Others See Stars – The Kaleidoscoping Art
Excerpt from the Fourth Emerald Key: Radical growth – the Learn-ability leverage Kaleidoscoping is the practice and capacity to recognize relationships and patterns. You practice active inquiry that seeks to understand the core principles that are the basis of all systems. Kaleidoscoping is the ability to compare and correlate seemingly unrelated fields and apply concepts from one to the other. For example, using the terminology...
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Get The Innovation Edge – Lessons From Google’s Problem
Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, admits in his interview with Business Week that Goggle’s obstacle in continuing to innovate is – “that we have people in multiple sites. It’s a problem that everybody faces, but we’re going to face it bad. We have, like, 50 locations.” Why would multiple locations be a problem? It is more than time zone differences. Schmidt explains the spirit of innovation:...
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