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Innovation must reads of the week: Managers Don’t Really Want to Innovate

3 Lenses For Innovation by @wimrampen How Enemies Power Innovation – Fast Company Why Innovation Dies by @sgblank Managers Don’t Really Want to Innovate – HBR Uncommon Sense: How to Turn Distinctive Beliefs Into Action – MIT Sloan Management Review

Innovation must reads of the week: Ten Red Flags for Innovation

Ten Red Flags for Innovation: Why It Fails by @lindegaard Why Innovators Don’t Always Win – Forbes Crowdsourcing Innovation: How To Make Sure You Spot The Best Ideas – FastCoCreate The Four Worst Innovation Assassins – HBR Why You Won’t Get Breakthrough Innovation by Being Nice – HBR How to tell if you are an [...]

Innovation must reads of the week: Achieving Successful Strategic Transformation

Want Breakthrough Ideas? First, Listen To The Freaks And Geeks – Fast Co Design Eureka moment: Does man or machine drive innovation? – BBC The Dangers of the Minimal Viable Product – HBR Compete on Know-Why, Not Know-How by @richardsona Adapting to Survive: The Key to Jugaad (and Other Styles of) Innovation by @frogdesign Achieving [...]

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 [...]

Innovation posts of the week: Why are there no successful innovation initiatives?

40 Reasons Why We Struggle with Innovation – Innovation Excellence Don’t Fire All the Managers The Pitfalls of Prediction by @digitaltonto Innovation Is Everyone’s Job – HBR Ten Tensions in Innovation – Revised by @timkastelle Give the people what they want by @ovoinnovation Why Are There No Successful Innovation Initiatives? – Forbes

Innovation posts of the week: Fire all the managers

Is Inertia Winning Over Innovation? – Fast Company 8 Secrets To Creative Thinking (Hint: Steal From Others) – FastCo Design First, Let’s Fire All the Managers – HBR A One-Two Punch to Foster Creativity – Strategy+Business The 3 Biggest Barriers To Innovation, And How To Smash Them – FastCo Design Building an Integrated Innovation Capability [...]

Innovation posts of the week: 10 innovation myths

GE’s Beth Comstock on What Design Can Do For Your Company Ten Innovation Myths – Scott Anthony – HBR Tom Peters – Innovation Comes from Dissatisfied People – Innovation Excellence Stop the Reckless Brainstorming and Focus your Creativity! – Innovation Management Booz: corporate culture is a key factor in successful innovation – Smart Planet If [...]