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- The Top 10 Catalysts for Great Ideas
- Idea Champions recently conducted a poll to discover which catalysts spurred its clients' brightest ideas. While many of them involved solitary activities or reflection, two of the top five -- brainstorming with others and collaborating with a partner -- reveal the power of team ideation in sparking creativity. A third...
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Why Do Employers Tell Us When to Work?
- Most US office workers clock a M-F schedule, and relax on the weekend. But if you could set your own schedule, what would you choose? Tammy Erickson believes the days when an employer dictates your work days and hours is becoming outdated. How come...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Who Will Fund Your Internet Idea? Reach for Your Wallet
- Q: What is the best way for an Intranet entrepreneur to get funding for a great idea? A: Reach for your wallet. That's the key takeaway from David Silverman, who himself is in the middle of launching an Internet company called Jamseed. Writing on Harvard Online, Silverman counsels...
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- How to Think Better
- Do we think better when we set aside time for it? Ellis Booker, a friend and former colleague, blogged in the affirmative, saying Take the time to let big ideas grow. In his post, he described an unexpected five-hour layover at LaGuardia...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- A Hollywood Exec Teaches Business Pros to Pitch Their Ideas
- The Find: A Hollywood producer who's heard thousands of pitches offers advice on how business leaders can present themselves and their ideas effectively. The Source: An interview with Stephanie Palmer, former Director of Creative Affairs at MGM and current author of "Good in a Room: How to...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- How They Did It: Seven Intrapreneur Success Stories
- Seven successful intrapreneurs reveal what it took to launch new ventures at Kodak, Toyota, Yahoo, and other major companies. .logoimg { float:right; border:1px solid #eee; padding:4px; background:#fff;} Kodak Intrapreneur:...
- Articles 2008-04-10
- How to Get Showers of Ideas
- I lunched today with a well-known quantum physicist, who mentioned that about half his ideas, and most of his best ones, happen in the shower. I asked him whether he knew why. Being a physicist, he has developed a model to explain why. It goes, loosely, as...
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- HBR IdeaCast: Keep Your Ideas to Yourself
- Great ideas add value to discussion, but when they come from managers, Marshall Goldsmith says, they can add too much value -- stifling the creativity and enthusiasm of the very people you need to execute the idea. Before you pitch your ideas -- or your improvements on an employee's ideas...
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Cultivate New Ideas
- Ideas are a precious resource, but they're hard to nurture and easy to kill. Here's how to help them — and your company — prosper.Wondering why your company hasn't come up with any brilliant new ideas lately? Maybe you haven't properly laid the groundwork. From the first inkling all the...
- Articles 2008-02-27
- The Secret to Selling Your Big Idea
- You've got a brainstorm. It's bold, it's brilliant — and it might even make you rich. Learn how the pros transform great insights into big career breakthroughs.Every great product or service started out as just a sparkle in someone's eye. Whether you want to invent the next must-have technology or...
- Articles 2008-02-19
- Make Your Meetings Matter
- Long silences. Tapping PDAs. The faint buzz of snoring. Sound like a meeting you led recently? Use our tips to make face-time more focused and productive.There's nothing worse than attending a boring, unnecessary meeting — except, of course, presiding over one. With our step-by-step guide to better meetings, you can...
- Articles 2008-02-19
- HBR IdeaCast: Where Does Strategic Innovation Come From?
- By the time you hear about a groundbreaking idea, your competition has heard about it too â€" and may even be using it. George Stalk describes how managers can collect faint ideas, watch trends before they hit, and gather the necessary information to decide which ideas will give your business...
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Google Boss Schmidt Takes Reins of Digital Brain Trust
- In the past few years, prominent Googlers have taken team building to a whole new level. First it was Messieurs Brin, Page and Kordestani’s involvement in the X Prize Foundation, now Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken over the chairmanship of the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank that hopes...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- How To Really Influence People
- Who matters more: the influencer or the people they influence? The answer seems obvious. But the Relationship Economics blog posted an item, Market to the Influenced! that argued the influencers are not so important as they might seem. Getting enough people sufficiently influenced to spread the word is often more ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- A Chorus of Critics Tells Marketers: Stop Targeting 'Influencials'
- There was no shortage of brands employing viral marketing in 2007 (here are the top 1o viral videos of the year). Many of these campaigns are genuinely funny, but the question remains, what's the best way to spread a viral campaign as widely as possible? Some hold to the idea...
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- HBR IdeaCast: Unleash Your Hidden Assets
- Harvard Business School Press editor Melinda Merino is joined by Bain & Company’s Chris Zook to discuss some of the ideas from his new book, "Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth." In the near future, Zook says, the only way for the vast majority...
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- How Do You Make Your Message Stick: Ask JFK
- Walk out of your average PowerPoint presentation, and an hour later you probably won't recall the main idea of the talk. It's frustrating to waste time listening to ideas that quickly slip away, but it's even more frustrating to try and fail to make an idea stick. Luckily, the McKinsey...
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- How To Build Bernd Schmitt's Trojan Horse
- Despite my misgivings about the examples he chose to introduce the concept of Big Think ideas, Bernd Schmitt does in fact seem to have created useful templates for organizations to come up with ideas that could be big. He details five tools for creating big ideas: ...
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- The Weird Rules of Creativity
- The Idea in Brief Hire people you don't like, then promote them when they defy you. Wholeheartedly commit to risky projects. Get your happiest workers arguing. And keep your innovators away from customers. Recipes for disaster?...
- Articles 2007-12-13
- Breakthrough Thinking from Inside the Box
- The Idea in Brief Imagine attending a meeting at which you and your colleagues have to invent an idea for a new business. The only instruction you're given is to "think outside the box." The task is...
- Articles 2007-12-13
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