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Reinventing the Entrepreneurship Game

ImagineNation

In my November blog I described how important it is to unleash the power of innovative entrepreneurship in our digital & connected world. To become the “crazy ones who spit in the eye of the status quo” with compassion, creativity & courage, fuelled by a passionate purpose to make their dent in the universe. So here is the next instalment of my ongoing personal entrepreneurship story. Mindsets are foundational to any change process.

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Can One Make a Living in Creative Photography?

Idea to Value

But what about purely creative photography? As with many art forms, there is often the question of whether following your creative passions can translate into a stable and fulfilling career. Don’t treat other creative photographers as your competition; share knowledge.

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The Climate Crisis: What You Really Need to Know

Faisal Hoque

Climate change threatened to cut the global economy by $23 trillion.

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Re-Thinking for a New Era

Innovation Excellence

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Catalysing change through innovation teams

ImagineNation

Reinforcing and validating the importance and role of collaboration, where a range of new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed innovative workplace culture changes, have emerged. Transform creative discoveries. Capacity to change.

Change 59
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Everyone hates to fail, why do you?

Innovation Excellence

Change 77
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The “Fake News Crisis” and 4 Ways to Combat It

Faisal Hoque

Blogs I Articles Creativity | Innovation Leadership | Management 4IR Adversity AI change Climate Control Entrepreneurship Faisal Hoque Fake News Fourth Industrial Revolution Leaders Leadership & Management Lifelessons LIFT LIFTBOOK TransfoormationalLeadership Transformation

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ADAPT OR STALL – THE KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS IN A CHANGING WORLD

ImagineNation

To stall is not an option, so platforms offering information such as courses in MBA in Digital Business Management give you the ability to think outside the box, innovate in an uncertain and changing marketplace, as well as to develop suitable corporate business models.

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Reinvent: Your Workforce is Calling for It

Faisal Hoque

The world is undergoing a global, nonstop maelstrom of change and, while stressful by its very nature, is necessary for growth, progress, and human evolution.

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Review of LIFT by Business Standard

Faisal Hoque

Unprecedented change invariably brings in its wake a host of new responsibilities and opportunities.

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

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., This white paper has been originally published to the SSRN: Spruijt, Jan, Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: Why Entrepreneurship Can Hardly Be Taught (May 17, 2017). Entrepreneurship. When to be creative, when to be managerial. Chang, Y.-C.,

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SoundView Executive Book Summary of LIFT

Faisal Hoque

Blogs I Articles Creativity | Innovation Leadership | Management Life's Journey Transformation 4IR Adversity change COVID Entrepreneurship Inspirat Leadership & Management Life LIFT Resilience systemic thinking Work

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The Top Reasons We Fail to Achieve Our Creative Goals (And How to Stop It Happening to You)

Idea to Value

It does not need to be due to a lack of drive, creativity or passion for your project; sometimes the problem can be quite the opposite. If you find you have conflicting goals, this will help you determine what needs to change. As new technology becomes available, trends change, or new ideas come to light, you may need to alter your approach. If you fail to achieve a goal, identify why this happened, and what you can change to prevent it happening again.

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LIFT – “Succinct, well researched, cohesively laid out, and a strong call to action…” — Reader Views

Faisal Hoque

a three-part read gracefully outlining the causes of global change, the opportunity these changes provide and where, as well as the transformational abilities they offer.

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The Rise of the Smart Creative (Lessons from Google)

Innovation Excellence

Continue reading → Book Review Business Models Creativity Entrepreneurship Innovation change collaboration Innovation Management Innovation Mindset innovative thinking Open InnovationIBM Learning is now developing a completely different set of competencies which they encapsulate and describe as an ‘adaptive learner’.

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If you have 'An idea to change history' you can earn up to 250 thousand pesos in this initiative of History Channel

Entrepreneur - Innovation

If you have a project to improve the world through technology and innovation, History Channel can reward your creativity. See how to sign up for the 'An idea to change history' initiative. Entrepreneurship Calls

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Out of Global Upheaval Comes Benefit for All

Faisal Hoque

The world is undergoing a global, nonstop maelstrom of change and, while stressful by its very nature, is necessary for growth, progress, and human evolution.

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Coaching for Innovation Agility to Affect Profound Change

Innovation Excellence

Build Capability Change collaboration Creativity education Innovation Business Models coaching Customers Design Entrepreneurship Innovation Management Innovation Mindset LeadershipUncertainty and instability are the key drivers of the business game and our clients are challenged by a diverse range of problems which are not going away.

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Future-Centered Design: How to Turn Great Ideas into Action Plans

Daniel Burrus

As a matter of fact, some of the most transformative ideas that have gone on to change the world have been from a lower- to mid-level employee. Most likely, at first the answer will be no, but you can change that! Great ideas do not always come from the top down.

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WHY IS IT MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO INNOVATE?

ImagineNation

We also know exactly what transformative innovation involves, and how to enable and equip people to connect and collaborate in new ways to effect constructive and sustainable change in a world of unknowns. Problem-solving, cultural change, and improving people’s lives.

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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – SEEING SELF AS THE CAUSE

ImagineNation

They can then step up and above the line of choice, take a sacred pause, and make a fundamental choice to shift or change the pattern or structure, by seeing themselves as the cause of what happens to them, to create what they really want to create in their lives, teams or organisations.

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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

While homosexuality has often been associated with the arts and creativity, it has never been as openly accepted within the scientific community. However, the gay community has a long history of contributions to science and entrepreneurship. An American Geophysicist, Cox and his colleagues were instrumental in developing a way to measure the changes in the Earth’s magnetic alignment and the geomagnetic polarity time scale.

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Innovation as a Path to Peace

Innovation Excellence

Can collaborative entrepreneurship facilitate a rapprochement in Cyprus? Case Study Change collaboration Creativity culture Culture & Values education Entrepreneurship Europe Experience Innovation Innovation Innovation PerspectivesHow can innovation offer a path to peace? This question was asked by two young entrepreneurs in Cyprus.

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EVERYONE HATES TO FAIL – WHY DO YOU?

ImagineNation

Or in taking smart risks, that help you connect, explore and discover and design opportunities for making important and necessary, personal and professional changes. Focus on every experience, no matter what it brings is an opportunity for deep learning and creative and inventive change.

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Retooling to Win in the Next Decade

Innovation Excellence

Innovation change Creativity Entrepreneurship failure innovative thinking Leadership successAfter the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos drew to a close, Martin Reeves, Senior Partner & Managing Director, Director of the BCG Henderson Institute shared his reflections of the event with the Boston Consulting Group. Whilst discussion trended down global economic growth, they also elevated risks on a number of fronts, spanning the whole.

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Innovation is a Lifestyle, Not a Bunch of Metrics

Innovation Excellence

Persistent growth, profit, ROI and NPV are the obvious measures, Innovation Leadership Management Business Models change collaboration Creativity culture Design Thinking Disruptive Innovation elemence Entrepreneurship future growth ideas Innovation Management Innovation Mindset innovative thinking insight malofsky marketing Open Innovation Process Strategy success Transformational Innovation

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INNOVATING THROUGH CONSTRAINTS

ImagineNation

Knowing how to generate and catalyse creative ideas through rapidly innovating through constraints? How might we ignite people’s creativity, safely develop better ideas?

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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – GOING BACK TO BASICS

ImagineNation

Where leaders are mindful, authentic, and trustworthy, and are able to communicate with clarity, build resilience, and empower and enable others to collaboratively catalyse positive change.

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“Lift” by Faisal Hoque Is A Must-Read. — Readers’ Favorite

Faisal Hoque

If you want to be this kind of new leader, or if the idea excites you for the great changes it could bring, “ Lift: Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change” by Faisal Hoque is a must-read.

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“Lift” Urges Forward-Thinking Innovation. — Booklife by Publishers Weekly

Faisal Hoque

“An inviting, in-depth guide to transformational leadership in a world of continual change.” ” Lift: Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change. Takeaway: An inviting, in-depth guide to transformational leadership in a world of continual change.

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Creative destruction: innovation for sustainability transition

Norbert Bol

During the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris earlier this month, nearly 200 countries agreed to limit global warming to 1,5C above pre-industrial levels and getting to net zero emissions between 2050 and 2100. Achieving these goals are probably even more difficult if we do not change our behaviour. Kivimaa & Kern (2016) show the results of policy mixes that aim for creative destruction in the UK and Finland. Creative destruction or mere niche support?

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“Lift” Looks For Contemporary Opportunities to Make a Difference. — Foreword Clarion

Faisal Hoque

” Lift: Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change. Confronting realities like climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, this book is about empathetic transformations to the ways that people work.

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How To Connect People To Drive Innovation

Innovation Excellence

A new way of working that fosters creativity and connects more people than ever before. collaboration culture Innovation Leadership Management Psychology alignment bimodal change coach Creativity Crowdsourcing Entrepreneurship feedback hcm HR human_capital Human_Resources Innovation Management Innovation Mindset innovative thinking Mentor sf Strategy successfactors technology Transformation WorkforceWhat is Bimodal People Management?

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Out of Global Upheaval Comes Benefit for All

Faisal Hoque

The world is undergoing a global, nonstop maelstrom of change and, while stressful by its very nature, is necessary for growth, progress, and human evolution. We still don’t know the full effects of this reach, but it is life-changing, for sure.

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Out of Global Upheaval Comes Benefit for All

Faisal Hoque

The world is undergoing a global, nonstop maelstrom of change and, while stressful by its very nature, is necessary for growth, progress, and human evolution. We still don’t know the full effects of this reach, but it is life-changing, for sure.

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To Succeed You Must Get Really Good at This First

Innovation Excellence

I’d like to tell you a story about how 13 grams of wood and the tears of a 10-year-old changed the way I look at success. It’s a creative problem-solving program that teaches kids how to. Creativity education Entrepreneurship Innovation Creative Problem-solving Destination Imagination failing forward failure Kids LearningSuspending Disbelief When my daughter was six years old I started coaching her in a program called Destination Imagination.

Change 71
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Upskilling to drive growth in the new economy

ImagineNation

It seems that, for me, reinvention became a really useful and rewarding habit, especially as it forced me to upskill, to successfully and continuously adapt to the constant barrage of changes over my past thirty years in business.

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Is Experience Good for Innovation?

Innovation Excellence

Continue reading → Build Capability Experience Innovation Innovation Leadership People & Skills culture change Creativity Entrepreneurship failure Innovation Management Innovation Mindset innovative thinking StrategyExperience is what you get just after you needed it. A lot of people succeed at innovation because they didn’t have enough experience to realize that they should have failed.

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Intellectual Capital: The Power and Profitability of an Idea

Daniel Burrus

Be creative in generating a pool of knowledge from your employees, and then leverage it as an Anticipatory Organization. Intellectual property, or intellectual capital, is not a concept constrained only to technology companies like Instagram, Meta, or other social apps.

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Innovation Requires Improvisation

Innovation Excellence

Continue reading → Build Capability Innovation Leadership change Creativity Disruptive Innovation education Entrepreneurship Improvisation Innovation Management Innovation Mindset innovative thinking lean start-ups Start-ups“Innovation attitudes, not just aptitudes, matter. The ethos is as much about culture as competence.”

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How Technology Drives The Next Economy [video]

Innovation Excellence

A number of emerging technologies will drive the Next Economy in the next 10 to 20 years, changing the way we do just about everything; and it’s already happening. Creativity Entrepreneurship Feature Of The Week Innovation Leadership Technology Entrepreneruship Robots technologyWatch these 3 videos to expand your perspective on how technology drives the next economy.

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Learning How to Master the Art of Your Career

Daniel Burrus

Yet no matter how dry, straightforward, or technical, these professions also have creative qualities that foster critical thinking. However, they differentiate themselves in the ways they apply creativity and critical thinking to their jobs. It wasn’t until we saw the third orthopedic surgeon that creative critical thinking took place. With this change, his ailments were cured within a week.

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2017 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards

Innovation Excellence

Change Conferences Creativity Disruption education Entertainment Entrepreneurship Innovation Global Innovators Innovation awards Innovation StoriesTribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards celebrate individuals and ideas that have broken through and had an impact in business and far beyond.across a wide array of critical fields including technology, biomed, politics, education, healthcare, spirituality, religion, economics, sports, fashion, and philanthropy.