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Jennifer Goddard is the director of the Buzan Centre in Australia and New Zealand and co-founder of Mindwerx International. In "Head First Innovation", Jennifer Goddard looks at ways managers, innovation champions and entrepreneurs can open their minds to new ideas and ways of doing things that will give them the...- more about Jennifer Goddard »
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- Is Innovation Unique? New? Good?
- I am currently in Bangkok running the Thailand Memory Championships and an advert for an Innovation and Knowledge conference on 9 July caught my eye. The keynote "Unique, New, Good" by Mr Pansak Leelawankulsiri, SVP for SME Development at Bangkok Bank got me thinking ... is innovation...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- OMG, Did You Just Forget the Client's Name?
- No, there is nothing wrong with you. Our brains store the face in one section and their name in another. Actually, five parts of our brain light up when we recognise someone and try to put a name to their face, so we need to connect them up. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- SCAMPER Your Creativity
- Taking action is the key to increasing your creativity. But how, you ask? Creativity is simply connecting two unrelated elements together and SCAMPER is one of the best tools to stimulate this way thinking. Robert Eberle played with Alex Osborn's list (Osborn is the marketing guru...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Gen X? Fight Back. Here's How!
- Reading the BNET survival guide to Managing the Millennials got me thinking about how Generation Xers including me can close the gap in perception. In creativity circles, we define creativity as "shifting your perception". The same applies to embracing change and thinking like a millennial. Now I...
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
- Fish is Spelled 'Ghoti' and Creativity is 'Easy'
- A couple of years ago on a flight, Tony Buzan and I were duelling with puzzles. He stumped me when he asked what a "ghoti" was. Apparently, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was fond of pointing out the absurdities of English spelling by proving that "fish" could be...
- Blog posts 2008-05-25
- Is Management Innovation More Important than Product Innovation?
- Professor Gary Hamel argues that it is innovation in management --- rather than in operations, products or strategies --- that will create long-term advantage and fundamentally new approaches to growing winning businesses. "Today's business leaders are being challenged to build organisations that are as nimble as change...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Forget Me Not
- Forgotten projects, misplaced business cards and failure to remember someone's name are all factors that undermine your success. Missed opportunities are commonplace but need not occur. Memory is a skill we can all develop and it's vital for creativity. People often ask me what the link is...
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Tall Trees, Tall Thinking and Tall Poppies
- A recent visit to Western Australia got me thinking about the impact of the tall poppy syndrome in innovation. While walking along the unique 40-metre-high platform in the Valley of the Giants (400-year-old Tingle Trees, some of the world's largest), I was impressed with the innovative...
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Where Will New Ideas Have the Greatest Impact?
- Is innovation about killer ideas --- something big that will turn the world on its head? Or is it simpler than that? Odds are we won't be able to come up with groundbreaking innovative concepts like the Apple iPod or Cirque du Soleil every week. We need...
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- How to Nurture Ideas
- The lifeblood of innovation is fresh perception and new ideas. How do we nurture new ideas into potential solutions? As Brian Libby's article explains, you need money, time, process, people and perseverance. I would like to add one more quality to the list --- attitude. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Can Australian Managers be Entrepreneurial?
- Most managers would scoff at the idea that they are entrepreneurial --- entrepreneurs are guys creating new businesses from their garages --- aren't they? Actually an entrepreneur is anyone who takes a risk in creating something from nothing. While typically part of a new enterprise or a...
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
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- Christian Children's Fund Introduces Revolutionary Universal Child Development Scale
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Jennifer Harter, +1-804-756-8994, or Ellie Whinnery, +1-804-756-8987, both of Christian Children's Fund RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ChristianChildrens Fund CCF has produced a Child Development Scale designedfor use in developing countries. It is the first universal toolcreated by an international non-governmental organization that isdesigned...
- Articles 2007-10-02
- what I have learnt (the hard way)
- wouldn't it be great to learn from the mistakes of others? Jennifer Goddard may be dyslexic, but that doesn't stop her reading 800 words a minute. Her personal success in using mental literacy techniques to avoid flunking out of university led her to become Australia's most accredited...
- Articles 2007-08-01
- Maryland Student to Participate in Robotics Academy at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- To: EDUCATION EDITORS Contact: Dewayne Washington of Goddard Space Flight Center,Greenbelt, Md., +1-301-286-0040 GREENBELT, Md., May 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- JenniferSichler, a student from Elkridge, Md., will spend the summer of 2007at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. as aparticipant of the NASA Robotics Academy. The NASA...
- Articles 2007-05-29
- Rules of Engagement.(Television program review)
- (Series; CBS, Mon. Feb. 5, 9:30 p.m.) Taped in Los Angeles by Happy Madison Prods. and CBS Paramount Network Television in association with Sony Pictures Television. Executive producers, Tom Hertz, Jack Giarraputo, Doug Robinson, Andy Ackerman; producer, Barbara Stoll; director, Ackerman;...
- Articles 2007-02-05
- Universe 'peppered' with black holes.(NATION)
- Byline: Jennifer Harper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES There are definitely holes in this story. Some really big holes, in fact. NASA announced the results yesterday of an unprecedented, nine-month "all-sky survey" that yielded the first complete head count of every single black...
- Articles 2006-10-06
- West pair gain golf subsection
- STOCKTON -- St. Mary's High won the first Tri-City Athletic League Golf Championships on Tuesday at Van Buskirk, nipping Tokay 504-506. West finished fourth at 580. Jennifer Takahashi of West shot a 93 on the par-72 course and advanced to the Sac-Joaquin...
- Articles 2005-10-19
- Unscripted.(Television Program Review)
- (Series: HBO, Sun. Jan. 9, 10 p.m.) Filmed in Los Angeles by HBO Original Programming in association with Section 8 and Warner Bros. Television. Executive producers, George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh, Grant Heslov; co-executive producer, Malt Adler; producers, Michael Hissrich, Joanne Toll;...
- Articles 2005-01-07
- Unscripted.(Television Program Review)
- (SERIES; HBO, SUN. JAN. 9, 10 P.M.) Filmed in Los Angeles by HBO Original Programming in association with Section Eight and Warner Bros. Television. Executive producers, George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh, Grant Heslov; co-executive producer, Matt Adler; producers, Michael Hissrich, Joanne Toll;...
- Articles 2005-01-03
- Births
- Blayne Michael J. Pomeroy Darren and Christi Holladay, of Raytown, Mo., are the parents of a daughter, Elizabeth Louise, born at 11:33 a.m. April 7, 2004, at St. Mary's Hospital in Blue Springs, Mo. At birth, Elizabeth weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces, and was...
- Articles 2004-05-16
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