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Reinventing the Entrepreneurship Game

Innovation Excellence

In my last blog I described how important it is to unleash the power of innovative entrepreneurship in our digital & connected world. collaboration Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership change culture Innovation Mindset success

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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. So here is the next instalment of my ongoing personal entrepreneurship story. Being an associate with Corporate Vision for over 12 years enabled me to develop & hone my corporate training knowledge, skills & experience across the culture, leadership & team development domains. Mindsets are foundational to any change process.

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Change is Uncomfortable. Not Changing Can be Regrettable.

Daniel Burrus

Change Is Uncomfortable. Change may be the only constant in our lives, but that doesn’t mean we are happy about it! Change is possible, often unpredictable, and when it is unpredictable, it is uncomfortable. Change Is Disruptive. Certainty Makes Change Predictable.

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Taking Personal Responsibility – Back to Leadership Basics

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. Capacity to change. What makes Israel so innovative?

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Everyone hates to fail, why do you?

Innovation Excellence

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Taking Personal Responsibility – Creating the Line of Choice

Innovation Excellence

Where many people are … Continue reading → Change collaboration culture Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership Training behavior change Business Transformation change change lea change leadership change management conscious leadership digital transformation disrupt yourself disruption entreprenurial thinking organizational change re-thinking think differently training transformation

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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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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. Corporate entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Competence.

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Unique Ways Successful Startups are Changing the Corporate Innovation Landscape

Idea to Value

The corporate landscape is changing drastically, and for a corporate brand to stay relevant, they must innovate in order to change with the market. Such innovations can come in the form of adopting new technologies, but also by adapting the business practices typically associated with startup culture. Corporations and startups operate differently by nature due to the differences in their culture and business environment.

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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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Creating a Culture of Human-Centered Innovation

Inceodia

To thrive, innovation requires a culture that supports human-centered exploration and experimentation. Without an organizational culture that encourages innovative ideas to be tried, tested, sometimes failed and always learned from, those driven employee’s efforts will not gain traction even if their idea is a good one. Innovation needs to be an intentional part of an organization’s culture. The False Promise of Corporate Entrepreneurship.

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INNOVATING THROUGH CONSTRAINTS

ImagineNation

Culture blog Innovation consulting blog change management constraints corporate learning creativity Culture disruption Entrepreneurship Experimentation fear of failure gamification Innovation innovation agility innovation coaching innovation culture Innovation Questions novelty

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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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The Leadership Gap in Innovation

Innovation Excellence

collaboration Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership Management Webinar change culture growth ideas Innovation Management innovative thinking StrategyA vast majority of executives, more than 80% according to sources, consider innovation to be paramount for the future success of their organization. Yet, very few of them are succeeding in it. A McKinsey study, for example, puts the number of executives who are satisfied with their innovation performance at 6%.

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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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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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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – GOING BACK TO BASICS

ImagineNation

Especially when we are living in an oppositional blaming and shaming political environment, or within a passively or aggressively defensive organisational culture, where a large section of the community, has been forced by the Covid 19 pandemic, into security, survival, and scarcity modes! .

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Meaning Making – How the Innovation-Driven Organization Imparts Purpose & Meaning

Innovation Excellence

Change culture Culture & Values Customers Design Entrepreneurship Experience Innovation Innovation Inspiration Leadership Management People & Skills Psychology Strategy Topic Of The Month Company Mission Corporate Mission innovation-led growth Meaning Making Organizational Mission Power of Purpose strategic purpose

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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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Intellectual Capital: The Power and Profitability of an Idea

Daniel Burrus

Here is a look into each: Structural Capital — An easily measured type of intellectual capital, structural capital refers to the experience at an organization, such as workplace culture, a mission statement employees operate by, documented workplace policies, and more.

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Create an Intrapreneurship Program and Keep Brilliance In-House

Daniel Burrus

You have heard the term “entrepreneurship,” and perhaps as a business leader or C-suite executive, you fear the possibility of some of your team members leaving your organization to pursue their own great ideas.

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Adapting, Learning and Growing thru Uncertainty

ImagineNation

Where we initially landed in a fog of disruptive change that settled into every fibre of our being. Re-evaluate the situation realistically (“I/we can manage our response”) where some of us re-evaluate or change the importance of existing, new ideas and facts, and plan accordingly.

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Adapting, Learning and Growing through Uncertainty

ImagineNation

Where we initially landed in a fog of disruptive change that settled into every fibre of our being. Re-evaluate the situation realistically (“I/we can manage our response”) where some of us re-evaluate or change the importance of existing, new ideas and facts, and plan accordingly.

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Business Transformation Is All About Feedback

Innovation Excellence

Continue reading → Change Creativity Culture & Values Video Digital Entrepreneurship Growth Infographic Innovation Innovation Perspectives Inspiration Leadership & Infrastructure Leadership & Infrastructure Video People & Skills People & Skills Video Psychology Uncategorized collaboration alignment change coach cpm culture feedback goal_management hcm HR human_capital Human_Resources Mentor performance_management pm sf successfactors Transformation Workforce

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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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MANAGING AND SHIFTING A BREAKTHROUGH MINDSET

ImagineNation

In addition to being physically isolated and washing our hands, we need to cleanse our minds to offset any catastrophic thinking that unconsciously arises when we have to struggle with change, and when dealing with uncertainty, because we, in reality, we have no knowability.

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Innovation Management : Are start-ups Freedom Inc. companies?

Innovation Excellence

She is partner of LearnAssembly, a start-up who help companies to develop their entrepreneurial and digital culture. Continue reading → Book Review Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership Management autonomy change Culture of Innovation empowerment Favi Freedom Incorporated Happiness at work Poult Sophie Cohendet Start-up team work User-centricSophie Cohendet is passionate about management innovation.

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Break Out of a Golden Cage

Innovation Excellence

I often changed floors and even countries. The best thing for me about working in Google was the opportunity to experience different cultures. By Federica D’Armento & Tony McGaharan. Picture this.

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From Poland to Portugal, Ewa Kopczynska, an innovation globetrotter

Innovation Excellence

Ewa Kopczynska is a Partner and co-founder at E&D Knowledge Consulting, a consulting company specialized in knowledge management, innovation research, and change in innovation and technology. International project manager, and researcher in innovation and entrepreneurship fields, she’s a native from Poland, she works in Portugal, and basically, she’s bold in every attempt she does!

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Innovation Requires Improvisation

Innovation Excellence

The ethos is as much about culture as competence.” 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.

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How To Connect People To Drive Innovation

Innovation Excellence

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? It might be the next stage for your HR department.

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THE PROS AND CONS OF A LEAN STARTUP

ImagineNation

Startup culture has well and truly broken the mold of best practice, but is there value in pausing progress to wait for a more comprehensive offering? Entrepreneurship blog Business Entrepreneurship Innovation Start UpGuest blog by Claire Wilson.

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Surviving & thriving in the entrepreneurs game

ImagineNation

How might this be interesting & useful to others, in the new age of global entrepreneurship, especially as a woman – where The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Report for Women 2016/17 reports that 274 million women are already running their own businesses across 74 economies, of which 111 million were running well-established businesses by 2016. Make a fundamental change choice. Being the change.

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Confessions of a Business Artist

Innovation Excellence

You’ve got an MBA from London Business School, you’ve led change programs for global organizations, helped companies build their innovation capabilities and cultures, are an expert in digital transformation, and you can’t even draw a straight line without a ruler. Continue reading → Change Entrepreneurship Government Innovation education Art careers Economics jobs music successI am an artist. There, I’ve said it.

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Want Innovative Teaching? Apply Startup Principles to Reinvent Learning.

InnovationTraining.org

Teachers have gone above and beyond the call of duty to change how they teach and connect with students to ensure that students can still receive a high quality education – even while living through a pandemic. Education Entrepreneurship

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Retool to win in the next decade

ImagineNation

Stating that to stay ahead of the key trends impacting these types of changes, leaders need to question their current assumptions and retool their companies for the coming decade. After reading and digesting these two articles, I realised that my ongoing personal entrepreneurship story, that I have shared in my last two blogs, have landed in this exact same space. Including the importance of; Making fundamental change choices. Mindsets are foundational to all change.

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Declaration of Independence – Here is to the Crazy One’s

Rmukesh Gupta

We believe that it is our right to attempt to change the world – one person, one idea and one day at a time. We believe that it is our responsibility to create this culture ourselves and stand up for other creatives and crazy ones. Lets go change things! Lets go change the world for the better!

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Four Models of Intrapreneurship Innovation

Integrative Innovation

But the litmus test is: How can established organizations build successful new businesses through corporate entrepreneurship, also referred to as Intrapreneurship , on an ongoing basis? The second is resource authority : Is there a dedicated “pot of money” allocated to corporate entrepreneurship, or are new business concepts funded in an ad hoc manner through divisional or corporate budgets or “slush funds?”

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A disruptive world requires new leadership capabilities

ImagineNation

For humans to be effective, productive & innovative, in the Digital Age, we must have great leaders, who know that the future of work is both human and technology centred and are able to; Take a strategic, systemic & human centred approach to their role & work, who make it safe & possible for people to change, adapt & innovate. At ImagineNation we provide innovation coaching, education and culture consulting to help businesses achieve their innovation goals.

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The 5 Jobs to Address Uncertainty

Moves the Needle

It’s a long and difficult journey to implement this mindset change. Make it your own so it fits your business mission and your culture. New guidelines, rules of engagement, funding, hiring and so on, help create the culture of learning mode.

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The Founder, Innovation On Film

Gregg Fraley

Innovation stories are inherently transformational because they are about change — and this is perfect for the two hour story arc of a movie. Here’s that specific clip: The sequence of events that describe the McDonald’s brothers story is a case study in American entrepreneurship. Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc in The Founder. The Founder, Lessons in Innovation.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s advice to new entrepreneurs: “The Eureka Moment is a Lie”

Idea to Value

An entrepreneurial culture thrives when it’s easy to try lots of new ideas. A change in the world that seems so clear you’re sure someone else will do it. We were building the first News Feed, and I thought if we could just launch this, it could change how we learn about the world. Movies and pop culture get this all wrong. How about stopping climate change before we destroy the planet and getting millions of people involved manufacturing and installing solar panels?

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