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Category Archives: Innovation Leadership

Leading Like A Designer

July 22, 2016

Leading an innovation project, or other significant change? Determined to find better solutions to complex challenges? Taking inspiration from Human Centered Design (HCD), an innovation strategy steeped in users’ perspectives, can help you:

change, collaboration, creative thinking, design, innovation leadership, optimism

Six Ways to Make Better Mistakes

March 29, 2015

Innovation experts encourage learning from mistakes as a catalyst for creative discoveries. But, practically speaking, how can you make them more helpful than harmful?

change, innovation leadership, leadership, mistakes

The Innovator’s DNA

October 27, 2014

To think differently successful innovators act differently. This was revealed in a long term, global research project called The Innovator's DNA. The researchers studied the leaders of successful innovative companies to find out what they did differently than leaders of less innovative companies. Their findings included:

The ability to generate creative ideas...

change, collaboration, creative thinking, innovation leadership, questions

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