Archive for October, 2009

Must read innovation stories of the week: Innovation must be in your vision

Innovation needs a purpose. A bold compelling vision brings everyone together on a real purpose. What’s your purpose?
 

How to Go from Small to Super (HarvardBusiness.org)

16 Top Augmented Reality Business Models (PERSONALIZE MEDIA)

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Developing an Innovation Vision (Blogging innovation)

The 7 Deadly Sins of the Innovator (BusinessWeek)

How Blowing Up Your Business Can Drive [...]

Must reads of the week

A Halloween experience to remember

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Halloween is tomorrow. Are you ready?
This was my costume a few years back. The idea came from a wallpaper login I had of a green goblin with symbols in it’s [...]

Creativity

Innovation – without it we’re screwed

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Tim Morris, co-founder and director of Dynamic Horizons, a leading Australian innovation consultancy, has produced a fantastic video entitled "A brief exploration of the state of innovation in Australian business. Irreverent, frank and hopefully interesting." Although the statistics in this video [...]

Innovation

The most adaptive prevail, it’s as simple as that

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A few days ago I found myself reading one of the many posts out there about X reasons why brands refuse to embrace social media. The truth is many companies are already irrelevant because they fail to see the world as continuously evolving.
First it’s important to understand that as humans [...]

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10 Lessons in Fearlessness

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View more documents The Lion in Winter the movie from Robert Greene.

Have you read the 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction and the 33 Strategies of War? If you haven’t, you should!
Author Robert Greene wrote those books and just a few [...]

Wisdom

MICHAEL JACKSON: That wasn’t it

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Last night I went to the premier of Michael Jackson’s This is it. In the movie you’re looking at a creative genius at work but you’re also looking at the world through his eyes. It’s a great movie to watch if you a MJ fan because he WAS going to put on show!
The Lion in [...]

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Weekend innovation tip: 6 Lateral thinking techniques

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As we age, we humans tend to follow familiar patterns of thinking. Using the same method that worked is useful but it has huge disadvantages when trying to create new products or services.
We have a tendency to think in a linear way, following logic, adding incremental improvements [...]

Innovation tips

An innovator is the one who thinks there’s always a better way

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Can you recognize an innovator when you see one? It’s not easy but I’ve always thought that the people who don’t accept the world as it’s presented to them and see better alternatives are innovators, game-changers, creative geniuses, etc.
Innovators have certain characteristics that equip them to find better ways of doing things, Saul Kaplan from [...]

Thinking

Your competitive advantage: make people happy

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A key to implementing a kick-ass business strategy is doing what others are unwilling to do, this is shifts the rules to your advantage.
It seems to me that businesses are only focused on what they want but not what their customers want. Profit over brand is a ruling mindset! If you find yourself [...]

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VIDEO: 8 Secrets to success

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Got this short but powerful 3 minute video in my email last night and I thought I post in the morning for readers to get a boost in their day. I hope you have a powerful day!
 
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