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The basket of bad ideas scenario

Jeffrey Phillips

This is what you get when you scour the back catalogues of comic books, looking for ways to extend the franchise just a bit more. A good movie, The Big Short, noted that this same philosophy, mixing up a number of bad loans into a new package, is what caused the sub-prime lending disaster. But I'm sure there's more coming.

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Book Review: A.L.I.E.N. Thinking

Jeffrey Phillips

As you may know, as a noted (ahem) blogger and voracious reader, I am sometimes asked to review books on strategy and innovation. Even after choosing some books to review, I often find myself asking - did the book actually meet my criteria? All this in advance of a book I want to like, but struggle to review, entitled A.L.I.E.N.

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations. My team doesn’t have the skills to understand or support it if something goes wrong.

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The Fallacy of the Aha Moment & Overnight Success in Innovation

Idea to Value

While the visit unquestionably left an impression on him, the theory was actually only developed through the many conversations he had years after the visit with people who had also done research on the topic. It took another 17 years before he actually published his findings in his book on the topic, On the Origin of Species.

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The simple (and advanced) tools i use to run an online business on auto-pilot

Idea to Value

Considering I am constantly giving advice on the ways that companies can improve their innovativeness, and people can come up with new business models and business ideas based on their creativity. And I want to show you the tools I use and recommend to run a business in the innovation and creativity consulting field.

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The 10,000 hour rule is wrong, according to its original authors

Idea to Value

According to Malcolm Gladwell who popularised the notion in his book Outliers: The Story of Success , people who were performing at an expert level, such as musicians or sportspeople, had practiced for approximately 10,000 hours up to that point. What the original study actually found. Kobe Bryant.

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Do you have an Innovation Mindset? Do you want one…? Are you sure?

Idea to Value

Like so many other organizational leaders in China at that time, I had a very young team and we needed to skill-up. Within 18 months or so, they had developed a solid Innovation Skillset foundation. I needed to help my team and leaders cultivate an Innovation Mindset. It’s a combination of Creativity and Risk Taking.