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The Innovative Brain - February 2015 - Innovation is Weird

  Leading or joining innovation efforts can be difficult and at times can make you feel exposed and vulnerable. After all, innovation is weird before it's "normal" and accepted.

You take a stab at making it work anyway because you are passionate about the new and improved. To refuel your courage, here's a fun video, First Follower:  Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy

  

To keep yourself from getting "stuck in a rut" we recommend doing something each day that scares you and feeds your creative mind. Our monthly newsletter is a good source for stretching beyond your comfort zone and learning organizational strategies. Sample our latest newsletter which features:

• New Article:  The 3 Conspiracies to Kill Your Future
• #5 in our 12 Strategies for Innovation Excellence Series:  A deep dive into Environment
• Provocative Video:  What if...you tried Praise First?
• Upcoming Events:  Conferences where you can meet other Innovative Brains

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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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12 Powerful Parenting Methods for Raising Creative, Resilient Children

 

By Bob Eckert & Sheila Delarm, New & Improved, LLC

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Organizations all over the world are clamoring for a more creative workforce, secure in the knowledge that the creative thinking of individuals is the starting point for all innovation.  As a regular reader of The Innovative Brain you're likely here because you’re most concerned with enhancing creativity such that your businesses might thrive, yet many of us are parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles or “parents-at-large” too.

This article is focused on parenting skills that will help us raise our children to become creatively competent and resilient adults.

Here are the key parenting methods – based in the research and the wisdom passed to us from others – that we used and refined. Taken as a whole, we think these were powerful tools to help our kids grow to be the creative and resilient adults they are today:

1) Never tell kids they are smart.  Rather, when they are young, tell them they are....