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Amplify imagination

“We often wrongly assume that commodity jobs are filled with commodity people. Everyone was born with the capacity to create.”

While we know a lot about how to engender human creativity — equip people with innovation tools, allow them to set aside time for thinking, de-stigmatize failure, create opportunities for serendipitous learning — little of this knowledge has infiltrated management systems. Worse, many companies institutionalize a sort of creative apartheid. They assign the label “creative” to select individuals and roles — and tacitly (or not) relegate the rest to mundane work. Management processes must nurture innovation in every corner of the organization.

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Amplify imagination

“We often wrongly assume that commodity jobs are filled with commodity people. Everyone was born with the capacity to create.”

While we know a lot about how to engender human creativity — equip people with innovation tools, allow them to set aside time for thinking, de-stigmatize failure, create opportunities for serendipitous learning — little of this knowledge has infiltrated management systems. Worse, many companies institutionalize a sort of creative apartheid. They assign the label “creative” to select individuals and roles — and tacitly (or not) relegate the rest to mundane work. Management processes must nurture innovation in every corner of the organization.

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Let's face it.  Most people (unless you work in the dot EDU space) look to the higher education (or education in general) enterprise with an industrial mindset; one where teaching and learning ar
Hack by Aaron Anderson on August 28, 2013
Internet technologies have been evolving drastically as a way of communication, socialising, and entertainment to cloud technologies and further business tool.
Hack by Bhavin Parmar on December 19, 2012
Search "HR and Innovation" on Google and results range from Innovation is a Strategic HR Imperative to How HR 'Best Practices' Kill Innovation and Does HR Matter in Innovation?
Hack by Chad Hartzell on August 17, 2017
We hear only about Success stories! Create the worlds BIGGESTrepository or a web-portal of 'Screw-ups'. All disciplines, all languages,all nations and all $@%*  will be there.
If at all a CEO is the one who defines, constructs and drives the company structure, in reality there is Silos among the employees on what actually is the progression of the company.
Hack by Siva Westlife on March 3, 2011
Here are some modern principles for organizational change management and effective employee training and development.
Hack by Drummond on March 13, 2011
The numerous apps that are available on our smartphones help to simplify our lives and maintain life fluency.
Story by Samantha Robin on May 14, 2019
The nuclear power industry is economically challenged by an abundance of low cost natural gas from fracking and government subsidies supporting renewables.As a result, innovation has become a business
Story by James Tusar on July 29, 2017
Talking about Innovation and doing Innovation are different things.  Just as teaching innovation around made up problems (like designing a new kitchen) is vastly different than working on real wo
Story by Charles K Knight on May 15, 2019

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