Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Years ago, I read that an idea is two or more known pieces of information assembled in a new way. The more information I absorb, the more contexts I explore, the more fodder I have for idea generation. If my eyes are glued to a phone, I’m missing out.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

Here are five ways you can lead by example and influence your team to innovate and succeed every time: 1. This skill of listening can be a challenge for some teams, but when you set the example and create a culture of listening to various opinions, ideas and feedback you give your team a forum to feel comfortable expressing their ideas.

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Management Excellence

MARCH 27, 2022

There's little doubt creativity is vital in the workplace, and that idea generation is the enabler of creative problem solving and innovation. The better our teams and colleagues are at generating ideas, the better the odds of surviving and thriving in our topsy-turvy world.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 2, 2013

How can you ensure that people’s ideas are heard and respected? Corporate Team Building Creativity Innovation Leadership Leadership Coaching Management Organization Development Problem Solving Solution-Focused bad manager coaching executive coaching idea generation Managerial Leadership'

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

It can feel as though organizations face contrasting pressures to be both innovative and ethical, and research from the University of Melbourne looks at whether innovation and ethics are really zero sum or whether ethical leaders can also foster creativity. Contrasting pressures.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 5, 2020

As you check-in with your team(s), you are reflecting the priorities back to them in a way that highlights the great work they are doing; recognizing who is excelling and falling behind as the expectations shift; seeing new skills and performance opportunities to develop; you are making needed changes to how the work gets done that support innovation (..)

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Management Excellence

MARCH 21, 2012

After a brief hiatus, the Leadership Caffeine podcast is back! I'm excited to be on the air again and I'm excited about the great line-up of experts, authors and executives ready to share their big ideas! Speaking of big ideas, there's no one better to kick us off for this round of podcasts than G.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Gamification can help at different phases in the innovation process. These benefits are particularly important when it comes to ensuring success in creative thinking and innovation. At what stage in an innovation process can you bring in gamification? To start an innovation project. To improve innovation hackathons.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I think the best leaders expand their influence and leadership potential by continuing to learn and grow in experience. In my experience, however, my leadership influence grows the fastest when it grows through the people I’m supposed to be leading. Here are 5 ways I expand my leadership potential? Let me explain.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Essence of Team Leadership: Beyond Individual Brilliance “None of us is as smart as all of us,” famously stated by Ken Blanchard, captures the essence of collaborative team leadership. In the realm of leadership and coaching, a purposeless meeting equates to a rudderless ship.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2016

Creativity is essential for innovation. Unfortunately, we don’t drift toward creativity and innovation. First, we must recognize the need to foster a team approach to creativity and innovation. Third, creativity and innovation increase when certain processes and practices are in place. Definition of Creativity.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Gathering information and different perspectives may actually inhibit innovation. Therefore, collaboration involving lots of idea generation from multiple sources does not work for many projects. The leadership team had done their best to generate solutions to our situation. We were very concerned.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 12, 2017

At my inventing company, we always use Quantum Idea Generation to generate the ideas that help companies double their innovation success rate.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

How do these different modes of thinking affect team dynamics, process flows, idea generation and problem-solving approaches? • John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership Amy C. Leadership is Already Inside You. Team Leadership. Books Leadership Memes Skills Success Work life' Related articles.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 11, 2015

Google Trends is an innovative search engine that enables you to explore hot topics in different categories. Portent’s Content Idea Generator. This is another tool that can generate cool titles for you. General Writing Tips for Leaders. Six Writing Tips for Effective Leadership. Image via Creative Commons.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Idea Generation: Struggling to come up with ideas for a team activity, product innovation, or rewards? Idea Generation Example 2. Innovation and Strategic Planning Exploring AI-driven innovation strategies, trend analysis, and long-term planning to keep the organization ahead of the curve.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 22, 2017

I think the best leaders expand their influence and leadership potential by continuing to learn and grow in experience. In my experience, however, my leadership influence grows the fastest when it grows through the people I’m supposed to be leading. Here are 5 ways I expand my leadership potential? Recruit other ideas.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 30, 2016

Drew Boyd shares examples and strategies for boosting creative output and idea generation in the workplace. Continue reading →

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

One key area of leadership skill involves coaching. Another problem that makes people skills hard to acquire is that the learning isn’t well supported by books, videos and courses. I’ve read dozens of books on people skills, and the best of these focus on only a handful of key skills.

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 1, 2010

of us are facing today, I thought it an opportune time to fire up our natural, built in, idea-generation instincts. Technorati Tags: innovation , leadership , problem solving , Wake Up Pad , WUP. I’ve written about this here before, and, of course, in The Radical Edge. Given the challenges many (most?)

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2019

I work with creativity and innovation in companies, and I’m frustrated. This is the insistence of companies and CEOs that their organizations lack ideas. Not one, and I’ve worked with some of the most backwards bureaucracies in the world, and with innovation in North Korea to boot. You see, the problem is never idea generation.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Companies don’t need more ideas, they need ideas that are more meaningful. Companies have plenty ideas because they measure and track the number of new ideas generated. Meaningful ideas are, by definition, understood by a few and misunderstood by the rest. Continue reading →

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I love to encourage big dreams and I want to be a catalyst for idea generation and innovative thought. In spite of that tendency in me to act quickly, I have learned one principle of leadership by personal experience. If you read this blog regularly, surely you have learned that I’m a risk-taker by nature.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The increased communication and collaboration required of Beta organizations demand a new style of leadership and career planning. Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. Leadership actions that are not an option for leaders.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 21, 2011

” Then, using some of the ideas generated and the support already built, he attempted to implement the change. He asked himself, “Who is influential within certain circles? Who can ‘kill the deal’? Who can ‘make it happen’? Who can make the change even better?”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

I had just begun to get to know the company, and it seemed to me to be brimming with innovation energy, particularly among young employees who would regularly throw out creative "What if's" during casual conversations. A month later, it was clear that the problem — as is almost always the case — wasn't a lack of raw ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Although the ghost of the Great Man still haunts leadership studies, most of us have recognized by now that successful organizations are the product of distributive, collective, and complementary leadership. Some of these try to identify certain recurring behavior patterns considered more or less effective in a leadership context.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Willy Wonka and the Leadership Idea Factory by Starbucker on August 8, 2010 “If you want to view paradise Simply look around and view it Anything you want to, do it Want to change the world?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the Economist review of our book, The Innovator's DNA , the reviewer wondered whether genius-level innovators such as Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs challenge the idea that working adults can really learn how to think differently and become innovators. Innovators excel at connecting the unconnected.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership. Maxwell (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) In Leadershift , John C. Blog Post ).

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Management Excellence

APRIL 4, 2018

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. American Express.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

It would therefore make sense for organizations to increase diversity in teams that are focused on exploration or idea generation, and use more-homogeneous teams to curate and implement those ideas. For all the talk about the importance of creativity, the critical piece is really innovation. Good leadership helps.

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Management Excellence

MARCH 27, 2022

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

These two leadership styles, which I and other researchers refer to as dominance and prestige , respectively, reflect two fundamental strategies people use to navigate their way through social and organizational hierarchies. Some leadership situations call for dominance, whereas others call for prestige.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

They master challenges with a characteristic approach, and echo the habits of renowned innovators and entrepreneurs. Step One: Start with the idea generators 1. We’ve met so many entrepreneurs that we can usually identify someone’s type in a few minutes. How do we know? We all know the conflicts that upend teams.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

In our view, Brian’s work is an excellent demonstration of strategic leadership. But Brian’s accomplishment challenges conventional definitions of strategic leadership. Companies like Google and 3M have benefited from embracing innovation that comes from all parts of the organization.

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