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Are you asking the right questions?

Gerald Haman said " If you want to come up with idea, then you meed to ask great questions"...Read what Chuck Frey has to say about the power of provocative questions.

Fostering a culture of innovation

Evolving Excellence: Management Trumps Culture Every Time

There is a fundamental lesson to be learned from the BP debacle in the Gulf of Mexico - that management rules - not culture or leadership Read about the role of management in sustaining innovation.

Seth's Blog: "This better work"

is probably the opposite of ,"this might work." Read more

Steps on coaching your team to greater levels of innovation!

Steps for managers to help their team's creativity blossom; Information, Training, Feedback and Get out of the way Read more

Owning our mistakes!

Life is full of learning experiences and making mistakes. How we own mistakes can have a big impact on others. Read about the impact of an umpire owning his mistake

What makes a good boss great?

  • Read what Robert Sutton, Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, says about what makes a good boss great and what this might mean for innovation Read more
  • Recognising innovative behaviour gets returns - Try it

Leadership style

Does your leadership style encourage your staff to innovate and improve? Read about Four Things Employees Need from Leader Read more

Innovation and mistakes are closely aligned

Read Amy Gallo's blog You've made a mistake. Now What? for some best practice pointers about using the experience to learn and grow. Read more

The Failure of Failure - Michael Schrage - Harvard Business Review

What can we learn from partial failures? Read more

Read about innovations the Harvard Business Review suggests.

Joy at Work

What do Rubik's Cube and holding hands with customers and staff have to do with finding joy at work? Read Rosabeth Moss Kanters blog - Top Ten Ways to Find Joy at Work

The Art of Giving Praise

Tips for encouraging staff read Steve DeMaios blog  - The Art of Giving Praise

Check out this blog

Why don't I innovate at work ? Blog and associated comments about how the fear of others' opinions can hinder us from innovating. Read more

Innovative thinking!

A clever technique for thinking about how to innovate. Innovation tools

Paralysis of analysis or early action?

Some tips about questions and actions: Read Scott Anthony - Managing Director of Innosight Ventures blog. How to Kill Innovation

Annual TED Conference

The annual TED (technology, entertainment and design) Conference has just finished. The conference focuses on ideas worth spreading. Listen to James Cameron, film director, talking about curiosity and follow many other fascinating speakers at  TED Talks

Tesco approach

How would our processes be different if we adopted an approach similar to that used by  Tesco a UK supermarket? The process has to be better for customers, cheaper for the organisation and simpler for staff. Read more

Create a Garden of Innovation!

Have you thought about the similarities of creating a garden and a culture of innovation? Read more

The critical role of the trust in the innovation process.

How do we encourage each other to innovate?  Read more

Allocate time for innovation

Do we have the time to be creative and innovative? Read more

Top Ten Tips for Implementing Lean Six Sigma

As companies continue to cast their nets for ways to improve efficiencies across the board, the appeal of process improvement methodologies - and in particular that arcane-sounding discipline Six Sigma - continues to grow. Read more

Some holiday reading

Take time for some self-reflection, planning and action that can renew your enery, lift your spirits, and boost your performance in every aspect of your life to new highs.

Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

The science of stamina has advanced to the point where individuals, teams, and whole organizations can, with some straightforward interventions, significantly increase their capacity to get things done. Read more

Be a Better Leader, have a Richer Life

Work fills most executives' lives to the brim, leaving insufficient time for their families, their communities, and themselves. But Professor Friedman suggests that, rather than view the problem as a set of trade-offs, executives use their leadership talents to benefit all four domains at once. Read more 

Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions

How many of us keep pace day to day, upholding our obligations to our bosses, families, and the community, even as our overall satisfaction with work and quality of life decline? And yet, our common response to the situation is: "I'm too busy to do anything about it now." Unfortunately, unless a personal or professional crisis strikes, very few of us step back, take stock of our day-to-day actions, and make a change. In this article, London Business School strategy professors Donald Sull and Dominic Houlder examine the reasons why a gap often exists between the things we value most and the ways we actually spend our time, money, and attention. Read more

Managing Oneself (HBR Classic)

Throughout history, people had little need to manage their careers--they were born into their stations in life or, in the recent past, they relied on their companies to chart their career paths. But times have drastically changed. Today we must all learn to manage ourselves. What does that mean? As Peter Drucker tells us in this seminal article first published in 1999, it means we have to learn to develop ourselves. We have to place ourselves where we can make the greatest contribution to our organizations and communities. And we have to stay mentally alert and engaged during a 50-year working life, which means knowing how and when to change the work we do. Read more

Real Business Geniuses Don't Pretend to Know Everything

Larger-than-life personalities get more credit than they deserve. Read more.

How Management Innovation Happens

What do we know about how to accelerate the implementation of new processes and practices? Read what MIT Sloan Management Review has to say.

Find the 15 Minute Competitive Advantage

Rosabeth Moss Kanter provides us with eight characteristics of innovations most likely to gain suport.   Keep reading.

AMPLIFY

Every two years AMP runs AMPLIFY, an innovation and thought leadership festival.  Click here to view videos from one of the festivals.

The Perils of Having Too Much Money

Scott Anthony writes about why great innovators spend less than good ones. Click here to read Scott's article.

The New, Faster Face of Innovation

Read what MIT Sloan Management Review and others say about technology and innovation. Keep reading