The news media often makes money its top focus, which adds motivation for people to spend more, travel more and cozy up more to people of means. Sadly, dollars at your center also motivate you to chase green backs, more than character build, invent new innovations, or put other people first in ways that build [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2010’
Innovation for MBAs on Braden’s Blog
What would stoke innovative brainpower in MBA Programs? Join the discussion at Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation
Inspire Change in Those Who’d Rather Run in Ruts
Some argue that gatekeepers stick to routines and stomp out any hopes for change. Others claim innovation itself holds golden keys to change any status quo. Seth Godin says that people rarely gather as committed tribes around a status quo. What do you say? In spite of broken systems that resist progress, innovation, design and [...]
Your Brain on Innovation
Have you found yourself stuck in a rut while others leap forward with refreshing innovations? Are you out of sync with a vital marketplace of ideas? Insights for inventions with wider benefits for all? If you’re ready to help replace broken systems that served only a few, you’ll be delighted to know that your brain [...]
Why Workshops Fail and How they Win
Tips for more brainpower to rev up workshops People constantly complain that workshops waste time, and yet rarely work to spark lasting change or ignite innovative improvements. Have you found that to be true? If so, you’re likely looking at the kind of workshop format created long before the neuro-discoveries that call traditional meeting approaches [...]
Ode to Brainpower in Civil Discourse
When people consider civil discourse, usually brain chemicals are far from their minds. While words communicated with civility, can go only as far as any brain allows, skilled communicators create peace out of chaos. The opposite is also true, and rarely is silence an option for harmony. Any situation in which some people prevent others [...]
