Archive for October, 2006
What’s the difference between creativity and innovation?
Two weeks ago, a couple of colleagues and I ended up in a dialogue about this question:Is there a difference between creative thinking and innovation? and if so, what is it?My belief is that creativity thinking is a new, or original way of looking at something and that innovation is the manifestation of that original […]
Posted: October 29th, 2006 under Musings.
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Meeting quotes…
Thanks to our future first guest blogger, coming later this week! for passing along these 2 quotes about meetings!
"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not
achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be
‘meetings.’"
– Dave Barry
"Football combines the two worst features of American […]
Posted: October 29th, 2006 under Musings.
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Citibank’s innovation officer article ~ read it!
A friend and colleague whose husband works for citibank just sent me this translated summary of an article. that appeared in Germany’s Wirtschaftswoche… about Citibanks Chief Innovation Officer, Amy Radin.I am trying to get a link to the original article ~ I will post as I find it… in the meantime!Let me know what you […]
Posted: October 26th, 2006 under Musings.
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Why most meetings suck and what to do about it?!
OK maybe not most meetings. But many meetings are hugely unproductive or a "waste of time". At least that’s what I have heard directly from individuals within organization settings during the last decade. During a recent training session, participants estimated that about 50% of the meetings they attend are a waste of time. So what […]
Posted: October 25th, 2006 under Musings.
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Arizona Cardinals Choke and why you should care!
Here’s a question. What % of the Cardinal’s collapse could be linked directly to the Cardinal’s coach, Denny Green? What do you think?
If you didn’t catch last Monday Night’s football game between the Chicago Bears and the Arizona Cardinals, it was one of the greatest comebacks of all-time by the Bears and one of the […]
Posted: October 21st, 2006 under Musings.
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Aikido of innovation or Aikidovation!
5 years ago I started taking Aikido, a Japanese martial art because I was interested in getting in shape and learning something at the same time. When I began training, I didn’t realize how many of the lessons learned in aikido could be applied to deliberate creativity and innovation. After leaving class this past Wednesday, […]
Posted: October 13th, 2006 under Musings.
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8 principles for Innovation
This newsletter just came across my email from CCL, Center for Creative Leadership.
Check out what Bob Rosenfeld has to say about innovation… I think it’s right on the mark!
Posted: October 11th, 2006 under Musings.
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Boston Legal! helps me UPSHIFT
Yesterday I had one of those ~ if it can go wrong, it will days. Particularly stressed out, I went to aikido (which sparked a whole series of ideas that I will share tomorrow) and then went home and turned on the tv. Now, I am a rare watcher of TV, but in the interest […]
Posted: October 11th, 2006 under Musings.
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Fail forward to innovative results!
This morning while driving I tuned into one of my favorite Monday morning NPR radio programs, “This I believe”. Today’s essay was by newspaper columnist Jon Carroll and it struck a chord with me about the importance that failure plays in learning, growing and in my opinion ultimately innovating. Take a look at it here. […]
Posted: October 9th, 2006 under Musings.
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Have you googled yourself lately?
It’s just my opinion, but I think everyone should google themselves every now and then. You never know what you will find.
I did this last week and voila, I found two postings that I didn’t even know were out there. Both have to do with innovation.
The first was an article written by Todd Pitock, a […]
Posted: October 7th, 2006 under Musings.
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Building Innovative Teams -HBR Statistics
Last week, I had an interesting conversation with a participant in an innovation workshop about what stops people in their organization from implementing new ideas and new strategies. The response was “we don’t have enough time/or resources to do it.” This is a common response that I hear from many people from a variety of […]
Posted: October 6th, 2006 under Musings.
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Why now? Why a blog?
I hope to answer with this my first blog entry!
It was over a decade ago, (September 1995), that I was on my way over to work in London that I first got interested in deliberate creativity and innovation. On the plane over, I read Doug Hall’s book called Jump Start Your Brain and I was […]
Posted: October 5th, 2006 under Musings.
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