The Weekly Roundup – May 15, 2010

Five Ways to Boost Your Creativity

Are you looking for a quick creativity boost? A shot of creative adrenaline? These simple techniques will have you bubbling over with ideas in no time: https://bit.ly/bZDUy0

How to Create a “Hunch Friendly” Environment

How do you get the most out of your employees? How do you ensure that they’re always offering new ideas and helping you stay ahead of the competition? By recognizing and rewarding their efforts – it’s that simple, and that complicated. https://bit.ly/aiB4Nb

10 Ways to Come up with a Great Idea

Great ideas don’t just spring up unbidden. At least, not very often. They need to be encouraged. Here’s how you do exactly that – 10 straightforward ways to make sure your next idea is a great one. https://bit.ly/dvUvmG

Leadership Lessons from a Creative Genius – Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis has been recognized as a great musician for a long time. But a great leader? That’s something new. And yet the same principles that give him ‘swing’ help him lead people effectively. Understand how great music and leadership go together: https://tinyurl.com/d4snp8

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Open Collaboration: The Key to a Strong Culture of Innovation

Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine your company’s most valuable asset isn’t your product, your patents, your trademarks, or even your people. It's the connections between ...

How AI Will Shape the Physical World

Introduction Last year, I watched a video of Alex Conley, a man with a cervical spinal cord injury, controlling a robotic arm mounted to his ...

What Jazz Musicians and AI Researchers Have In Common

Introduction We have always built things in our own image. The ancient Greeks carved gods that looked like idealized humans. Renaissance architects designed buildings proportioned ...

How AI Will Make Corporate Conferences More Exciting

Introduction I have delivered keynote speeches at over 1,000 events. And I can tell you the single biggest factor that separates a forgettable conference from ...

Force vs. Flow

The tighter you grip, the less you control. We've been conditioned to believe that forcing outcomes is the path to success. Clench your jaw. White-knuckle ...

The Innovator’s AI Dilemma

Here's a question that should keep every leader up at night: What is generative AI actually doing to our ability to think critically? Not "could ...

Are Your Meetings Killing Innovation? A Simple Reset That Gets Ideas Flowing Again

 If you’re a leader who’s ever led a brainstorm of any kind, you’ve probably had this experience. You open up the floor for ideas, and ...

New Thinking for the New Era of Business

Albert Einstein famously noted, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them.” In our post-COVID world of ...

When an Astronaut Needs a Pen

Ever get stuck on a problem, only to realize you're solving for the wrong thing? That's exactly what happened when the rocket scientists at NASA ...