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The Progress Principle: Using small wins to ignite joy, engagement and creativity at work

Idea to Value

One of the most important pieces of creativity and innovation research from the past couple of decades can be found in the book The Progress Principle: Using small wins to ignite joy, engagement and creativity at work. Inner Work Life (from Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, The Progress Principle: 2011). Small wins.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Innovation fails because humans have emotions

Idea to Value

In fact, there is a lot of scientific evidence behind what makes people in management positions afraid of new innovative and creative ideas: Loss aversion explains why we fear losses more than equivalent gains (and so try to avoid unproven ideas). People are afraid of challenging the status quo if they do not feel psychological safety.

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Michael Brunner is Named Honoree in Pittsburgh’s 2020 Smart 50 Awards

Brunner

2005: H e acquired a creative boutique agency in Atlanta to provide a foothold in one of the nation’s strongest business markets . 2011: Michael helped launch BHiveLab, an in-house technology incubator that has become a thought-leader throughout the industry . 201 7 : Brunner won a Cannes Lion and was named PRWEEK U.S.

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What Does a Chief Innovation Officer Do?

IdeaScale

In this survey from 2015, researchers report that 43% of large companies have some sort of top innovation executive in place, which was up from 33% in 2011. After all, “ successful innovation is the combination of creative ideas and sustainably profitable business models.” But what does a Chief Innovation Officer do?

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

As recently as 2011 90% of Lego’s users were boys. He transformed the culture into a creative, agile and rapid hothouse of innovation. Five Sustainable Innovation Practices that saved Lego – Leadership Network. A typical engineering mistake is wanting to invent all the things the product might consist of in one go.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. They did just that, and by 2011, e-books sales surpassed sales of print books. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer. They need to understand which problems, if solved, would have the greatest positive impact.