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The Podcast Renaissance: How Podcasts Boost Creativity and Inspire Audiences

Idea to Value

Podcasting is an exciting expression of creativity, and it can be a powerful tool to inspire other people across the planet. Though we’re used to podcasts getting millions of streams now, back in 2007, it was considered Guinness World Record-worthy for Ricky Gervais to have an average first-month episode download rate of 261,670 times.

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How Facebook misses out on Talent

Destination Innovation

There are pervasive myths that older people are stuck in their ways, lack creativity and dynamism and cannot cope with new technology. In 2007 at age 22 Mark Zuckerberg profoundly stated, ‘Younger people are just smarter. He is dramatic proof that old people can be creative and dynamic. This is reflected in ageism in hiring.

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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

Human beings are meant to be creative. One problem we witness too often in society is the treatment of creativity and business innovation as mutually exclusive occurrences. Most notably, older organizations are the ones that place creativity in one column and positive disruptions via innovation in another. The Test of Time.

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Cracking the complexity code

Paul Hobcraft

There was a good article within the McKinsey Quarterly published way back in 2007 entitled “Cracking the complexity code,” written by three authors Suzanne Heywood, Jessica Spungin, and David Turnbull. It still has a lot of relevancy in my mind today. You suddenly don’t have the bandwidth for innovation exploration and more.

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Is It Possible for Companies to Over-Innovate?

IdeaScale

What’s wrong with “too much” creativity and thinking ahead. Motorola’s RAZR and RIM’s BlackBerry were cutting-edge until 2007 when the iPhone arrived and made both of them utterly irrelevant in the time it took to explain what an “iPhone” even was. Remember when this was the height of innovation?

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

by Brian Tracy – 2001 Mindset by Carol Dweck – 2006 Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann – 2007 Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman – 2011 Thrive by Arianna Huffington – 2014 Atomic Habits by James Clear – 2018 The post Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books appeared first on Destination Innovation.

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The Importance of Prioritizing Employee Well-Being and Psychological Safety

Business and Tech

The science is clear that when we prioritize our well-being, we’re more creative, productive, and resilient, and we make better decisions. My turning point came in 2007, when I collapsed from exhaustion and broke my cheekbone. Well-being isn’t just a perk, it’s a competitive advantage.

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