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Innovation must reads of the week: The secret phrase innovators use

[View the story "Innovation must reads of the week: The secret phrase innovators use" on Storify] Innovation must reads of the week: The secret phrase innovators use Storified by Jorge Barba · Sat, Sep 22 2012 19:34:24 New post — How can we spur innovation at work — and in ourselves? http://goo.gl/BOvVIEric Barker Ten Ways [...]

What are you doing to escape old ideas?

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” – Keynes Coming up with new ideas is a piece of cake. But escaping the pull of the tried and true is the difference between staying releant or not. Old ideas are like oxygen, we don’t even know they are [...]

Change will happen whether you like it or not

Companies are still scrambling with the rise of social networks like Twitter. If people think you suck they’ll gladly express themselves and let everyone else who listens to them. Oh and by the way, this happens in real-time. This is the type of change most companies have not embraced. But you know what, this change [...]

Innovation posts of the week: Why we don’t like change

Why We Don’t Like Change 4 Roles for Your Innovation Team by @timkastelle Innovation: Corporate Culture is Not the Answer! – Forbes FREE BOOK: Making Open Innovation Work by @lindegaard Why Experts Create Few New Ideas

Please understand me. I want you to

The only way to understand what customers (our children) are thinking is to put ourselves in their shoes and step into their world. Look at the world from their eyes. We have to close the gap between their world and ours if we are to understand and help solve their problems in a better way.

The first business bet you should make: everything changes

Everything changes in our world all the time. One of the most fundamental mistakes we humans make is to assume that everything is static, but in fact everything changes all the time.

Innovation posts of the week: Don’t ask for too much change

Innovators take note — there’s a limit to how much change you should try to bring about in a single move. The sweet spot is to figure out “the smallest possible step to unleash the most change.”