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Innovative Brainpower for 2013?
Whatever popular culture reveals, people carry gene pool potential for more creative and innovative leadership. I’m convinced we could reshape a far finer 2012 with brainpowered tools used more as strategic imperatives.
Stress Tanks Learners and Leaders
The problem with stress is that it masks as winner – so you miss its killer qualities and fail to spot danger signs before it strikes.
Stress kills!
10 Popular Idols Kill Innovation
Those who refuse to unpack idols worshiped in the past era, struggle to risk innovative alternatives for the coming era. We still tend to worrship 10 barriers to innovation …
5 Common Traps that Sink Innovation
Without regular reflection and renewed directions, common traps in most organizations we work within become sinkhole killers of novelty. How so? …
5 Common Traps that Sink Innovation
5 Brainpowered Tools – Endless New Jobs
Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chair, challenged leaders in today’s Associated Press, for US organizations to view a new economy with stronger job creation. Bernanke warned the White House to come up with a plan for job creation. Since the unemployment rate sneaked up to 9.5 per cent it’s a critical time to shift directions. Here [...]
Rekindle Brainpower or Spin Wheels?
People ask how they can rekindle brainpower to do something novel. If you’ve slipped into potholes of anger, disappointment, or anxiety lately – you likely feel the need for a new shot at success. For some it’s a matter of moving beyond ruts and into renewed opportunities. For others it’s about sidestepping toxins at work [...]
ROI for Care, Diversity and Trust
To create a culture where diversity and trust can flourish is to ride winds of the upper air. Just as airplanes take off against wind, not with it, so also do diverse approaches push back. It just makes sense to rise together, rather than float along with current air-streams. Yet workers often find themselves on [...]
Set a Stage for Diversity as Mental Asset
When people facilitate differences on a stage set for diversity mental assets play key roles. To celebrate diversity as an asset rather than tolerate differences as deficit, is to first set the stage for high-performance outcomes. MITA mentoring interventions set that stage with diverse brains in mind. In October 2010, McKinsey Quarterly, Aaron DeSmet, Monica [...]
From Poor Tone – to Brainpower for Innovation
Luckily we can overcome our brain’s default for ruts that foster poor tone as evidenced in many conflicts – to create instead – tone for an innovative world order forward. 1. Affirm another person’s thoughts before sharing your views on the other side – to show that you really heard, sorted, and valued them. (Notice [...]
5 Surefire Torpedoes for Innovative Brainpower
You may find it interesting to discover that one can flick on a molecular brainpower switch, and disengage innovations. It’s done daily – any time – any where. Handy to know? Perhaps for those who’ll snipe at change-agents this week, before they lead others forward. How so? Here are 5 surefire torpedoes for downing innovative [...]
5 Ways to Soar with Ravens, Walk Forward, Lead Innovative Change
When I worked in the High Arctic in the 90’s, I met a wise Inuit elder who told me that ravens on Baffin Island surprised everybody when they began to walk one-day in the 80s. “Before that, ravens hopped along clumsily,” he said. “Then they learned to take one step at a time, and everything [...]
5 Keys into New World Order for Work
Imagine the windfall if today unlocked a brilliant segue into a global life-changing career shift. Look again – it’s almost here! Can you see yourself leading employment opportunities, in a new world order? One where jobs move from tired traditions, into dynamic workplaces with secret gardens and mind-bending adventures for every enterprising worker who enters. [...]
Blame it on the Brain
Find yourself working against growth in your career? Standing still while others ride new waves of innovation? If you face financial problems, relationship struggles, or workplace inertia – you can blame it on your brain. The brain’s proclivity to default to harmful ruts can cause you to work against triumph. Luckily, that same brain offers [...]
Organizational Brainpower for Innovation
What if you took one risk to lead a change that would improve a core practice where you work? Could that move set innovation in motion across an entire organization? On Saturday at an RIT annual event, I spotted 5 questions about innovation that could transform indifference and lead organizational growth. At the Innovation Festival, [...]
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 [...]
Genius Transparency to Lead Innovation
Gridlock feeds ego and shuts out brainpower while transparency fosters innovation and increases trust. The more gridlock we see, the more open exchanges get lost. Have you seen bullies and cynics keep ego alive by banishing transparency through backdoor deals? Flawed leadership, whether called democracy or dictatorship generates gridlocks that block creative brainpower. Never before [...]
Equity, Humor, and Inuit Brainpower
Equity’s not an option but laughter makes it happen more, Inuit elders told me when I facilitated leaders on Baffin Island, near Greenland. Unsure why your workplace acts as if all humans were not its highest currency? Wonder why we wage wars at work that kill opportunities and maim innocent people? Question why bumps and [...]
Why Brain Renewal is Not for You
Over 30 years in brain based renewal, showed me several reasons why renewal cannot win in certain workplace conditions. I’ll admit that naivety in younger years, prompted me to believe deteriorated settings could turn around in spite of barriers. Over time though, I observed some settings that simply cannot perk up because organizational toxins contaminate [...]
Innovation, Design and the Human Brain
The human brain comes with unique equipment that links tone and talent development – to build and sustain innovative cultures across silos. When mentoring leads to mind-guiding then design leads to profitability. How so? 1. Kindle and design an idea. Just as the iPod started with an innovative idea, Steve Jobs and other mindguides continue [...]
