The session’s going well. Comfortably seated on leather seats, your team has efficiently dissected the product, juggled concepts, whisked the financials up and down in a cocktail shaker and set fire to the business plan. You’re off to a good start. As their leader, you summarize the teams’ exciting new ideas. One colleague suggests amusing puns, another submits a carefully handwritten list. This could get tricky. There’s potential for disagreement in the ranks, with lots of sensitive
egos jostling for priority. You don’t want to offend anyone but you also want the right result. You need Tonglen. Continue reading ‘The right word can change the world’
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It is the begining of wintertime in the northern hemisphere. What better way to prepare for winter than to get ready for all the viruses that come with it? Today’s case study is about one of Israel’s largest HMO’s (Health Maintenance Organization) and its struggle to reduce the use of antibiotics amongst its virus-stricken patients.
Continue reading ‘Gesundheit!’
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Creative people seem to be able to generate and evaluate ideas on the fly. They often describe a surge of thoughts that are developed and filtered almost as soon as they are generated. This brief process allows them to come up with ideas that are not only original and interesting, but also feasible and realistic. Colleagues, friends, and “innocent bystanders” may look at this with the same admiration that is usually reserved to virtuosic musicians, circus acrobats and masters of martial arts. Continue reading ‘Ideation Tai Chi’
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Do you sometimes feel your Marketing and R&D are from different planets? Talking different languages? Is there a way to create a common language that can improve our interactions?
If the situation in this clip is familiar, you may want to read on.
Continue reading ‘Innovation Talk: What’s in it for me?’
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“This statement is false” is a perfect example of a paradoxical statement. It is counter-intuitive to consider the above statement as true and false at the same time, but that is exactly what it is. Continue reading ‘How can paradoxical logic give you a competitive edge?’
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This post deals with Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman’s theory of decision-making, and reminds us to keep our eye on the ball.
Continue reading ‘Spot the Vegetarian’
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Innovation is not a luxury. We tend to consider it only when we have the right time, the right mind set and of course, the right budget. Actually, it should be harnessed to tackle your every day work challenges. Using innovation as a tool, your company can overcome real-time problems, create more efficient processes, develop new products, and ultimately impact the bottom line.
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In this post, we investigate three different personal approaches to creativity, and discover a somewhat surprising common thread.
Continue reading ‘Confident Creativity’
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