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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Mentors see themselves as people developers. A manager would work with them to develop the business case. When is it time for individual vision and when is it essential to collaborate and build a strong team with a shared vision? They ask about lessons learned at each milestone as a way of furthering the innovator’s development.

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Culture Creator = Sustainable Innovation

IdeaScale

The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated. Getting to a place where courage, creativity, and collaboration is the norm for addressing problems or pursuing opportunities can be difficult. Work with the team to develop an improvement plan.

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Barrier Buster: Clearing the Way for Breakthrough Ideas

IdeaScale

Innovation leaders must master a wide range of skills in order to enhance the innovation potential of their teams. Often, managers are required to play the role of a barrier buster to ensure the team’s creativity delivers bottom line results for the business. This is a classic example of a strength becoming a weakness.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018). Atomic habits: An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones.

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The dos and don'ts of innovation shared by 10 global leaders

hackerearth

Co-owner of Koch Industries and one of the top ten billionaires in the world according to Forbes, Charles Koch believes that you should “embrace change, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.” Easily the first lesson in the innovation handbook, asking “why” and “what-if” will set the ball rolling.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

In essence it is nowadays recognized as the difference between creativity (Schumpetarian) and alertness (Kirzner) – creation versus discovering. When to be creative, when to be managerial. Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? And a successful entrepreneur knows when to act causational and when to act effectuative.