Category Archives: Innovation

Super Bowl Ad for the Next Great Entrepreneur

Here’s a great ad that will air during the Super Bowl. It’s created by the Kauffman Foundation, which studies and encourages entrepreneurship. We found out about it from Steve Case, an entrepreneur who founded AOL and is now Chairman of … Continue reading

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How to Ignite a Winning Culture with just 10% Support

by Holly Green  Want to spread an idea like wildfire throughout your organization? Start with getting one out of every 10 people to passionately care about winning. As business leaders, everything we do should focus on setting our organizations up to … Continue reading

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What does playing to win look like in the business world?

by Holly Green Once again, the sports world offered a powerful lesson for business leaders when the New Orleans Saints played the Detroit Lions January 14th. Specifically, I’m referring to Saints coach Sean Payton and how he approaches the game … Continue reading

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Management Skills for the Entrepreneur & Change Catalyst

Yep. It can feel like this when you’re an entrepreneur or someone who is playing to win. Belly flops don’t stop you. They just make you smarter.  The success skills of entrepreneurs – influencing others, risking and making mistakes, bouncing back … Continue reading

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How Pixar Powers Its Creativity through Employee Engagement

by Michael Lee Stallard At the technical Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, the Associated Press reported that it wasn’t the gorgeous host, actress Jessica Biel, who attracted the most attention. Instead, it was an understated, bespectacled, computer engineer named Ed … Continue reading

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Finding Great Talent and Becoming a Rare Talent

Would you hire someone who had an early success but then was fired or failed?  After this person was fired, he went on to start a new company but that didn’t do well. Finally, he succeeded.  Would you hire him or … Continue reading

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Why Asking Why is So Important To Spotting Opportunity

Y is a crooked letter. That’s what a dear friend’s mother used to tell him when she was exhausted by all his questioning when he was a young boy. At some point, he learned to obey his teachers, parents and bosses. Didn’t … Continue reading

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Three Phases That Guarantee Innovation And Who Holds the Keys

by Holly Green When I ask business leaders to identify which part of the innovation process their organizations struggle with the most, I typically get one of three answers: We have a lot of ideas but most of them get … Continue reading

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Innovation Facts and Myths – Your Answers May Affect Your Company’s Performance

by Holly Green Everyone knows that innovation means coming up with the next great idea in your industry, right? Actually, there’s a lot more to it than that. Test your ability to separate innovation fact from fiction by answering the … Continue reading

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How to Improve Your Odds of Success with Change Management

“Only a third of excellent companies remain excellent for decades, and when organizations try to transform themselves, even fewer succeed” Scott Keller and Colin Price, authors of Beyond Performance. That’s a tough hurdle. It’s as if companies are designed to … Continue reading

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