Choosing a Winning Business Idea
You've probably heard it a hundred times by now - if you want to make alot of money with an online business you have to offer your own product or service. Well, make that a hundred and one times... ...
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Color Your Life
In this article Sue explores career transitions using color and chakras as metaphors designed to give a unique perspective. This article was previously published as "Color of Coaching" with a slight shift of focus)
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Creativity Management There's Nothing New Under the Sun
There is a concept that creativity is the invention of something original. This is misleading:
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Creativity Management When To Add Talent
First one must master the craft. Then one adds talent. Then the endeavour begins to enter the realms of artistry. Craft includes the following:
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Humankind's Greatest Inventions
There are a number of amazing inventions that have been created during the course of human history. Some of the great ones that come to mind are...
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Innovation Management 5 Ideas An Hour
The Economist (2003b) states that 3000 bright ideas are needed for 100 worthwhile projects, which in turn will be winnowed down to four development programmes for new products. And four such development programmes are the minimum needed to stand any chance of getting one winner.
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Innovation Management: Trying Out New Ideas
As innovation is characterised as a break with the past, it is useful to analyse the potential take-up of new creations. These categories apply to organisations as much as people.
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Learn To Trust That Gut-Feeling
It just might save your life Think of the many times throughout your life when you experienced a strange feeling that turned out to be an early warning of danger. Use your early-warning radar. Did yo...
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Putting Your Ideas Into Action
Ideas are everywhere. Each idea that we encounter, whether we create the idea, synthesize it from somewhere else, or hear it, is a possible opportunity. Just a possible opportunity. It doesn't matter how promising, exciting or applicable the idea is, or how big of an opportunity it might be, it is just a possible opportunity, unless you take action on it.
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Seeking Initiative and Innovation? Reward Failure!
Based on Proprietary Research "If you want to increase initiative and innovation, you have to encourage and embrace failure. A culture that punishes less-than-ideal risk-related outcomes will stifle ...
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Create An Idea Journal
When I first heard Jim Rohn talk about the importance of keeping an idea journal I was immediately captivated. So what is it you ask?...
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Creativity, Innovation, and the Importance of Spontaneity
Spontaneity occurs when ideas or behaviours are expressed without evaluation. This lack of evaluation is the key to good idea generation. Some of the links include:
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Creativity Management and Good Ideas
If you think of creativity as problem identification and idea generation, then it follows that problem identification and some of the more straightforward ideas will be generated in an office environment.
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Discontinuous Innovation
Discontinuous innovation is very closely related to radical innovation. In fact, the two are often interchangeable. There are three important methods of achieving discontinuous innovation and one important consideration:
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Intuition Power In Three Steps
Anyone can be more intuitive. Learn how to develop the power of your intuition in three simple steps.
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6 Steps to Super Mindpower
Ever hear You can't teach an old dog a new trick? Well that might be true for dogs, but it's NOT TRUE for humans! Today's research has proven your brain can continue to physically grow -- even into very advanced old age...
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A New Pair of Shoes
Old and New. Personal growth is about leaving the comfortable behind and getting uncomfortable. "A New Pair of Shoes" is about jumping into change with "both feet"
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Business Innovation Masks and Trance
One useful import from the field of Improvisation is the concept of Masks and Trance to get people thinking in different directions.
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Great Ideas and Radical or Disruptive Innovation
We're all looking for great ideas right? There are a few Creativity and Innovation principles that are relevant before we discuss practical application:
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Innovation
Innovation, in a business context, is generally thought of as the product or application of creativity. Peter F. Drucker suggests that innovation "is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship."
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12 Tips for Taking Smart, Calculated Risks
Most of us know we should take more risks. Try these quick ideas to help you spot the risks you should pursue -- and the ones you should let pass by.
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Business Innovation Small Changes, Big Effects
When innovators attempt to make radical leaps, they often try to think big or in terms of giant leaps. Whilst there may be value to this approach, there is also much to be said for the opposite approach, that is, deriving radical change from small steps:
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Facing a Resource Crunch? Read On!
Recently I read an excerpt from a new business innovation book wherein the author went to great lengths to instill the need to provide sufficient resources for every innovation effort, without which the effort would be almost certain to fail. The cited leadership's frequent failure to ensure adequate resources as the single most important reason for innovation failures.
Hogwash! Not only is the author wrong, his perspective is downright dangerous to the heart of the innovation effort.
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Think Outside The Cup and Saucer
An observation that shows how one company solved an "out-of-the-box" creative yet simple solution to a vexing problem. Strategy does not have to be complex or expensive to be effective.
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Why Do We Suppress Higher Thought?
Throughout History we have imprisoned our brightest stars and thinkers. In modern periods we force them into works of fiction and disallow those Thoughts, which make us question our perceived or created realities by those who rule over us. We attack the innovators, entrepreneurs, personalities and thinkers in our civilizations in every country in the world. Occassionally we allow a few to come forth with ideas in works of fiction; because we as a people would shun their thoughts if they were not brought out in any other way.
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