How does innovation happen? How do great ideas spread? One way to accelerate it is the random collision of unusual suspects; that is people who don’t know each other colliding with each other. New ideas, perspectives, and value-creating opportunities are in the gray areas between unusual suspects. It seems so obvious and yet we spend most of our time with the usual suspects in our respective silos. We need to get out of our silos more.
Category Archives: Creativity
A leader’s Most Important Job? Creating a Culture That Values Talent But Celebrates Growth
Creating a culture of learning and growth is a leader’s most important job. Doing so drives employee engagement, attracts and retains talent, and pushes the business forward; this is how leaders lead for growth. But, how many leaders lead their organizations this way?
The Two Traits of Highly Innovative Teams
Innovation is a crucial aspect of any successful organization. Companies that fail to innovate risk becoming stagnant and losing their competitive edge. Two key factors that drive innovation are cognitively diverse and psychologically safe teams.
What’s The Best Way to Foster Innovation and Creativity Within a Team?
Companies live and die by their ability to both execute their core business and find the next revolution. Both need innovation, because not doing so results in stagnation, irrelevance, and finally failure. Innovation is the responsibility of the CEO, but the task itself resides in project leaders and their teams.
Small Giants: Business Lessons from Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
In the world of business, the common goal is often to grow as large as possible. However, the book Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham explores an alternative approach that some companies have taken: choosing to be great instead of big. These “small giants” are companies that prioritize factors such as purpose, community, and quality over sheer size and expansion.
7 Deadly Sins of Mediocrity
“The Slayer of Mediocrity.” That’s what I called myself when I first started posting stuff online. Eventually, people on Twitter started calling me Innovation Insurgent, and it stuck. My belief is that humans have inherent attitudes and beliefs that drive us toward mediocrity; I started taking an interest in how to combat these attitudes and beliefs.
Find The Things That Annoy You and Fix Them
It’s no secret that the world is full of things that annoy us. From small inconveniences to major frustrations, we all encounter things in our daily lives that we wish were different. However, instead of simply complaining about these annoyances, we can use them as opportunities to drive innovation and positive change.