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Brainstorming is Overrated

A lot of companies use brainstorming to “get out of the box.” Although anything that resembles creativity can be a plus, simply brainstorming a few ideas won’t do much to really impact the future. Too often, organizations don’t have a well-conceived process for creative innovation. They start by brainstorming a few, maybe even a dozen,…

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Incremental and Continuous Improvement Isn’t The Path To Innovation

Business journals, seminars and conversations around the coffee pot are filled with experts spouting the benefits of continuous improvement… taking small incremental steps to improve a product or service. It’s fine and good to improve things… everyone wants to make things better. But true innovation is much more than that! Innovation is based on a…

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What’s Wrong With Happiness?

Why is happiness a bad word in business? What’s wrong with business and career being intentionally focused on happiness? Is happiness just too fluffy, too much fun, too difficult to measure to be a real thing that warrants focus? The country of Bhutan would beg to differ with that opinion. In Bhutan, they don’t focus…

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It’s Time to Live Life On Purpose

There are so many expressions related to our life…. you only live once, life happens, life is short… and so on.   Considering the importance of this one life that we have, why do most people spend so little time dreaming, designing, planning and living their best life? I’d venture to say that most people…

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Ready or Not!

Business in the 21st century is changing faster than ever and yet there are abundant opportunities for those who can change with it.  Let’s be honest. The last decade hasn’t exactly been easy on some businesses in America. In difficult times it’s natural to “circle the wagons” and hunker down until the danger has passed. Unfortunately,…

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Human Potential – Inner Genius

  There is an inner genius in every human being. For some people, genius is discovered early in life and they become the model for all of us to study. For the rest of us, we may not be labeled as brilliant, talented or gifted, but we all have enormous potential. The genius within all…

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Thinking for a Living

How often do people really spend quality time thinking? Sir Isaac Newton was asked about how he discovered the concept of gravity. He replied, “I thought about it all the time.” It would be great if we truly took several uninterrupted hours to think about our organizations each day, but most people do this less than two-three…

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Discovering the Gen Y Dream

Lazy. Entitled. Selfish. They have been called ‘The Worst Generation Ever’ and have even earned the title of ‘Generation Why Bother’ by the New York Times, noting that Generation Y has been bread with complacency. They do not want to work hard to achieve success or to even get a job, but they have unreasonably high expectations for the life…