Your Assumptions About Reading Are Wrong
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The percentage of people reading books these days might surprise you. Identifying our false assumptions can lead to huge innovation opportunities.
Category Archives: innovation
Are You Hitting Your Top Gear?
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Most of us have an extra gear that rarely kicks in. The three obstacles to hitting your top gear are ignorance, apathy and fear – and we need to work through all three to innovate.
How I Almost Blew My Big Chance by Forgetting Everything I Know About Innovation
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I just started writing for Harvard Business Review Blogs. Here is the story of how I almost blew that opportunity, and how I finally made it work by doing what I already know works: experimenting.
You Can’t Benchmark Your Way to Greatness
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Many organisations try to increase innovation by copying the successful techniques of other firms. This rarely works. Instead, you need to develop your purpose first. It’s this underlying philosophy that drives success, not tools.
Are You Aiming High Enough?
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Every innovative idea has some risk in it. But sometimes, with higher risk we can find unusually high rewards. For a lot of innovators, we need to be aiming higher.
How to Grow
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If we try to completely protect ourselves from failure, we’ll never learn. And if we don’t learn, we don’t grow. To grow, we have to take risks, and we have to mess up. If we learn from this, we’ll be ok.
The Power of Community
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What to Amanda Palmer and WordCamp have in common? Both are built on powerful communities. There are some lessons for business in this.
The Unknown Knowns of Innovation
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We know how to make organisations more innovative, but we don’t act on this knowledge. Why? Sometimes it’s because it’s hard, which isn’t a very good excuse.
Are Creativity, Entrepreneurship & Innovation the Same Thing?
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There’s a difference between having a great idea, and creating value with that idea. Creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation are all words that are used to describe the value creation part of the equation. So do they mean the same thing?
Innovation is a Practice
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Our metaphors for innovation are all wrong – they make us think that innovation is an event. But innovation is a process – one that we can get better at. It’s much better to think of innovation as a practice.
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Innovation and Serendipity
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This post was first published at Integrative Innovation. In a previous post, I have pointed out the importance of diversity for innovation and organizational adaptability. Diversity is a crucial precursor to serendipity. In the Power of Pull, John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison emphasize the rising need for serendipity: We need to […]
