Leading Blog

MAY 27, 2021

Managers who do not allow time for exploration or do not schedule in incubation periods are unwittingly standing in the way of the creative process.”. It can be slow going to explore new concepts, put together unique solutions, and wander through the maze. Source: Harvard Business Review: How to Kill Creativity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Incubator process with teams all over the world to apply the tools to strategic business challenges and come up with practical, remarkable, usable ideas. Incubator Guide which guides you through the process. Questions like: “As a leader today, where would it be helpful to show up more like this or with these values?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

Incubator Guide to hear less from the guy who is talking too much and hear more from the rest of the team. Invite everyone to come prepared with one idea on how to make your meetings more inclusive. You might go a step further and dedicate an entire session to idea generation to get the wheels spinning. Download our free I.D.E.A.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are parts of the world where incubators work fine, and they have enough incubators to meet the needs — of the newborns at the hospital. But without cars, without roads, with everyone walking to wherever they go, it is simply not possible for countless babies to be born in the hospital, or to be […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2021

You can learn more about this process by downloading our free Idea Incubator Guide. ” One easy technique we teach leaders in our strategic leadership and fishbowl programs is called Own the U.G.L.Y. You don’t have to be the one in charge to run people through these strategic questions. Own the U.G.L.Y. G- What’s got to Go?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2016

When organizations’ hire, develop, and promote leaders using a competency-based model, they’re unwittingly incubating failure and obsolescence. They look to protect the status quo rather than disrupt it. They are hiring for the present and not for the future.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Incubator Guide. . If you want more information on using the Own the U.G.L.Y. Process or to get other tools to help your team think critically during this challenging time, you can download our FREE I.D.E.A. Fail Strategically– know which balls can drop (and which can’t).

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

Incubation’ is more than just ‘sleeping on it’. Let’s look at a personal example to illustrate how to use the technique - How I used incubation to come up a name for my online suggestion box company – ‘Vetter’. What could you discover if you reversed the assumptions around your business?

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

GUEST POST from Geoffrey A. Moore In a prior post, written during the tech boom, I outlined how established enterprises could re-engineer their approach to managing innovation in order to catch the next wave before it caught them.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

A serendipity mindset is an incubator for ideas, opportunities, and success. The safety can be achieved by openly expressing that nobody has it all figured out (as the leadership team did at one of the world’s most creative companies, Pixar), and responding productively when hearing about a mistake or failure.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Nadella championed numerous innovation programs, including allocating physical spaces for Microsoft employees to work with local entrepreneurs, creating accelerators to incubate new businesses, and hosting a global hackathon that became one of the largest innovation events in the world.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

A recent study from Baylor University suggests that university incubators often do more harm than good, and actually reduce the quality of innovations emerging from our universities.

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

He has started over 40 companies in his own right, and was the founding partner of an incubation consulting company that advised on the creation and growth of hundreds more organisations worldwide. Les McKeown is the President and CEO of Predictable Success, a leading advisor on leadership and organisational development.

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LDRLB

MAY 1, 2013

One possibly explanation for the results is the concept of incubation, specifically the notion that, during incubation periods in creative tasks, the mind “selectively forgets” what was tried before. Innovation burkus creativity incubation innovation organizational behavior' ideas in their four minutes.

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Engaging Leader

JULY 29, 2020

Idea incubator guide (with pre-ordering). A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in customer service, sales, and human resources. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Book: Courageous Cultures . Idea Inspiration Summit July 23. Free executive strategy guide to creating a courageous culture.

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Engaging Leader

JULY 18, 2020

Idea incubator guide (with pre-ordering). A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in customer service, sales, and human resources. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Book: Courageous Cultures . Idea Inspiration Summit July 23. Free executive strategy guide to creating a courageous culture.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Incubator Guide. In this kind of culture, your team members speak up, share their ideas, and drive quality performance and productivity. If you haven’t already done this – download our I.D.E.A. It’s your free guide to a power-packed team innovation session that will mobilize courage and increase team engagement. What would you add?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2017

Put your hands into rich humus, that dark soil that is the incubator for plant life. The term comes from the Latin humilitas, which may be translated as “humble,” but also as “grounded,” or “from the earth,” since it derives from humus (earth). Your hands will emerge dirty and your knees probably dusty from getting down on the ground.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 3, 2013

Yesterday we opened our new social enterprise incubator and co-working space to 60 community friends. One important component would be an incubator that provides space and services for new social entrepreneurs. Last week , we celebrated the officially opening of the reSET Social Enterprise Incubator and Community Co-working Space.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A regular speaker at Startx, Stanford’s incubator, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and TEDx’ he has spent the past three years designing for and speaking to The US Army’s General staff and Special Forces. He is an expert in the art of leadership in a rapidly changing world.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Incubators and accelerators have become highly pervasive around the world, as countries seek to cultivate the kind of innovations that drive economic growth. The research examined 56,000 patents granted between 1969 and 2012 from American universities with incubator programs. Making connections.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

The six I’s stand for individual, innovation, information, incubation, intelligence, and investment. “We Next, the ideas are incubated. N2Growth has a similar approach to helping businesses with digital transformation, but follows a more articulated Cognitive iSix component framework. “We

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Jason Womack

MARCH 17, 2013

When is your incubation time? Since the two weeks that have passed since reading this book, I've tracked 4 different "incubation" times. So now my own takeaways, the things that showed up in my journal as I was reading, as I've read an implemented some ideas from this book: Focus. What IS the shortcut to excellence?

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 1, 2021

Incubator Guide can help. .” (p.s. if you’ve missed our BEDTalk from the very early days of the pandemic, we talk about this too. it’s not too late to gather your team and capture what you’ve learned and are still learning, as you involve your team in preparing for the new abnormal. Our FREE I.D.E.A.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 14, 2023

Incubator process to come up with and pitch practical ideas to the executive team. Make Space to Share Practical, Usable, Remarkable Ideas One of our favorite techniques to use in all-hands meetings, town halls, or leadership events is to host a Team Innovation Challenge (or Fishbowl Competition– think Shark Tank, only friendlier.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 1, 2010

He has started over 40 companies in his own right, and was the founding partner of an incubation consulting company that advised on the creation and growth of hundreds more organizations worldwide. Les McKeown is the President & CEO of Predictable Success.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Here is an excerpt from another excellent article in Christina DesMarais‘ “Launch” series for Inc. magazine. To read the complete article, check out other online resources, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * The terms sometimes get used interchangeably, but they’re not the same thing.

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Jason Womack

MAY 18, 2012

Ok, maybe a little bit after, but I wanted to roll by the Natchez Technology Incubator one more time, just to see if anyone was in that early!) I'm still super impressed that there IS an incubator here, and hope they achieve some major success in the short AND long term. So, we were at the breakfast house as they opened, by 7am. (Ok,

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Incubates innovative thinking – Adaptable individuals have the ability to forward-gaze; thinking several steps ahead enables them to zig while everyone else zags. Individuals taught adaptability can also become better leaders than leaders without this skill.

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Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Christopher Ireland is Co-founder at the startup incubator Mix & Stir. But many of the most recent superstars, such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Page don’t seem to fit that model. So is it the most effective model for the 21st century? Maria Giudice is Facebook’s Director of Product Design.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Organizations have incubated a generation of leaders who believe their job is to make safe decisions, not to rock the boat, and to protect people’s feelings, when those leaders rise the office of chief executive their default settings for risk aversion become magnified. CEOs whose default setting is to “play it safe” do not impress me.

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 17, 2017

The church can be an incubator for the creative space @ZachYentzer #AnswersFromLeadership Click To Tweet. The first part is that you have an incubative space. In Creative, you share a 3-part framework to having a creative church. What are the 3 parts to the framework? Then you have mentorship.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 6, 2011

He has has started over 40 companies in his own right, and was the founding partner of an incubation consulting company that advised on the creation and growth of hundreds more organizations worldwide. Les McKeown (not the one from the Bay City Rollers) is is the President & CEO of Predictable Success.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 26, 2019

Amaury Godron is General Manager of OBRATORI, L’OCCITANE Innovation Lab, and Managing Partner of LOG Investment, L’OCCITANE Venture Fund.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 8, 2014

Your best incubator for convincing is a quiet private setting. A calm, well-planned approach will help convince your boss to do the right thing. P – Private The more controversial the idea, the more important this first competent becomes. Whatever you do, don’t confront him in front of your peers, his peers, or your team.

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CEO Blog

AUGUST 20, 2011

And a bonus pic of my daughter and new grandson (he gets out of the incubator for the occassional cuddle). I choose not to be old but it does make me wise. And in keeping with my new wisdom, wise people do not do long speeches.

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Jason Womack

MARCH 25, 2011

During our conversation, he told me about the business incubator program at Hannah Grimes , here in Keene, NH. Last Tuesday, I had a great dinner with a new friend just outside of Boston, founder of Elite Leadership Solutions: Bob Maitland.

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