How do novelty and innovation emerge within an organization?
Novelty and innovation emerge through people acting and sharing. Starting with local interactions, it spreads & takes on a pattern of change.
Novelty and innovation emerge through people acting and sharing. Starting with local interactions, it spreads & takes on a pattern of change.
At any given moment all of us, whether in work, personal relationships, or anywhere else in life, are Rote Copying, Surface Understanding, and Personally Mastering many things and many times at many levels.
The need for Creative Problem Solving. Competitive demands require quicker, more effective, and innovative problem-solving. Problem solvers are expected to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems and develop and design new innovative products and processes while reducing research and development time and costs. To solve creative problems that require creative “out-of-the-box” thinking, we have … Continued
The power of coaching questions is that they allow the manager to listen to the response, and really understand how and what the person is thinking.
Often when we encounter a problem we think we need to discover the “why”. We need to dig and chase and determine just “why we have this problem?”
Chasing the why does not create a solution
Here are 6 steps to turn a problem into a solutions.
I’m offering 3 webinars on Innovation Tools for the ASQ Human Development & Leadership Division.
I was interviewed by Canisius College about the business of creativity.
“These guidelines suggest what you can do when you’re a lonely little low-ranking, cubicle-inhabiting, systems-thinking petunia trying to introduce a new philosophy of leadership to those rooted in the onion patch of an obsolete managerial philosophy.”
Outcomes of the Team Building:
1. critical thinking;
2. innovation thinking;
3. the power of friendships.
Empower yourself and attend this workshop! This workshop will teach you how to find unique perspectives, think more creatively, enhance your creative expression, and help you manifest positive change for yourself and for your career and company.