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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

When he took the reins at Ford in 2006, the company was facing dire financial straits. Tim Brown advocates for the integration of Design Thinking into business strategy and organizational culture. Fresh eyes can sometimes spot potential that those deeply entrenched in the industry norms may miss.

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4 Things You Need To Build An Innovative Culture

IdeaSpies

In effect, the work that was squelched in one culture, thrived in another and saved the company. Here’s how you create an innovative culture. That company, Pixar , was sold to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 We tend to think innovation is about ideas, but it depends on people even more. Xerox PARC is now a shadow of its former self.

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Theaster Gates: “It’s about our ability to shape things.”

Tim Kastelle

Gates works as an artist, curator, urbanist and facilitator and his projects attempt to instigate the creation of cultural communities by acting as catalysts for social engagement that leads to political and spatial change. Empowering artists and creative individuals to realize their potential as community change agents.

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Coaching helps overcome the ten innovation intractables

Paul Hobcraft

If we are needing to become 21st century in our thinking and practices how do we open up the dialogue Where does agility, flexibility, adaptive and exploratory come into our thinking, into our systems, into our culture? Changing a culture to become more innovative can be a massive step in structure, organization and policies.

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Coaching helps overcome the ten innovation intractables

Paul Hobcraft

If we are needing to become 21st century in our thinking and practices how do we open up the dialogue Where does agility, flexibility, adaptive and exploratory come into our thinking, into our systems, into our culture? Changing a culture to become more innovative can be a massive step in structure, organization and policies.

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The Comforter Cold War of 2006

Innovation Excellence

(or How Assumptions Stifle Innovation) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In the room were two single beds, each with a fluffy white comforter folded neatly on top. Yeah, this is not gonna work.” I had just entered my one-bedroom corporate apartment in Copenhagen, and while everything else was pleasantly light and spacious, there was no […]

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Solving root causes of innovation blockage

Guide 4 Innovating

We are needing to become 21st century in our thinking and practices how do we open up the dialogue Where does agility, flexibility, adaptive and exploratory come into our thinking, into our systems, into our culture? Changing a culture to become more innovative can be a massive step in structure, organization, and policies.