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Innovation Pointers: Don't kill ideas - Create killer ideas instead

What’s the point of innovative thinking if our egos get so wrapped up in the “newness” we’ve created that we can’t handle some constructive criticism?

What’s the point in creating the basics of an idea if it dies on the vine because we don’t have a good tool to fertilize it to Agricultural Fair quality?

What’s the point in evaluating an employee if we can’t find a way to help them?

 The choice is yours - that's our...

 

Innovation and Positive Thinking: 3 Conspiracies to Kill Your Future

 

 

All innovation has - at its root - creative thinking and collaboration. There are mental attitudes that foster creativity and those that inhibit it. Unfortunately, unless we are careful, there are factors at play in our global culture that will stop creative collaboration dead in its tracks. Here are 3 big ones and what you can do about them.

1) Manufactured Pessimism

Optimism. We’re all supposed to have it. Yet it’s extremely challenging to be optimistic in our time of constant negative news flow. And it’s nearly impossible to think creatively and work tenaciously to produce an innovative outcome when one is pessimistic!

What’s one to do? (That would be you and me.)

Understand the manufactured problem:

Innovation Leadership: Don't blow it - 6 values to ensure success

 

Jump start success in 2015 by learning the key values needed for innovation leadership. 

 

Download the latest installment in our webinar series to learn:

 

• Why innovation leadership may require a values shift
• What the 6 Innovator's Values are 
• How you can energize these values at work and at home 

Clay Bunyard of Kimberly-Clark and Bob Eckert of New & Improved offer personal examples, tips and advice to help you avoid the most seductive traps. 

 

You'll be excited to see how the Innovator's Values apply in your work, your community projects and your personal life. 

 

Panelists

 

Clay Bunyard

Corporate Research & Engineering

Kimberly-Clark Corporation

@ClayBunyard

 

                  

 

Bob Eckert

CEO & Co-Founder

New & Improved, LLC 

@Gator_Brain

 

Assure you don't blow it - read the in-depth white paper describing the Innovator's Values.

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