http://goinnovate.com/blog Innovate Swiftly Wed, 05 May 2010 21:33:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Webster defines create as follows: To cause to come into existence; bring into being; originate ideas Webster's definition of potential is:  1. That which has power; potent; 2. Possible; latent; unrealized; undeveloped Thus it follows that creative potential means: the unrealized power to cause something to come into existence. aaa http://goinnovate.com/blog/2010/01/27/nature-of-creative-potential/ Essentially leaders of innovation get paid for what isn't. Yes, they get paid for what is not. As an executive, manager, team leader or entrepreneur, you don't get paid for what happened in the past. You get paid for what is not - that which is not yet reality. So ... http://goinnovate.com/blog/2010/01/27/getting-paid-for-what-isnt/ A Culture of Innovation in the Family Business   One of the reasons so many family businesses fail to transition from one generation to the next is they do not pay sufficient attention to innovation in their business, industry and marketplace. Although innovation drives the early years of the family business, the following ... http://goinnovate.com/blog/2010/01/27/culture-of-innovation-in-the-family-business/ An avid student of the GoInnovate! System, he recently gave a talk at the Howe School of Technology Management in which he brings together his view on the "Pathway to Innovation." (j.emert@infineum.com)   The drive to innovation as a source of growth and competitiveness is prompting company executives to revise their ... http://goinnovate.com/blog/2010/01/27/pathway-to-innovation/ "Actions speak louder than words." As started in a previous post (New View of Leadership) we are taking a look at the three main skills required for leaders of innovation.  Today, you walk your talk as you model innovation for others. A leader of innovation must be a model or example for ... http://goinnovate.com/blog/2009/10/19/walking-the-talk-leadership-as-modeling/ True leaders enable others to innovate. Traditionally, leaders have been viewed as heroes who have all the answers. This perception is an obstacle to innovation. Under that model, employees attempt to innovate if they are told to innovate, when they receive their directions from the top. They feel they do ... http://goinnovate.com/blog/2009/10/13/a-new-view-of-leadership/ Being a leader isn't easy. In addition to dealing with limited budgets, looming deadlines, and the rate of change happening in the outside world you also have to take notice of the rate of change and innovation within your own business. And this change is largely due to everybody's belief systems, and ... http://goinnovate.com/blog/2009/10/08/how-to-disappoint-others-as-a-leader/ Founded in 1994, Los Angeles-based NorthStar Moving Corporation has redefined the moving industry as the first to offer eco-luxury moving services, elevating basic moving and storage services to a new unparalleled level of customer service, customized care, and environmental consciousness. Company Highlights “A+” rated by the Better Business Bureau. Featured in The Robb ... http://goinnovate.com/blog/2009/09/23/laura-mcholm-vp-marketing-of-northstar-moving/ Dwayne Spradlin is President and CEO of InnoCentive - connects companies, academic institutions, public sector and non-profit organizations, all hungry for breakthrough innovation, with a global network of more than 180,000 of the world's brightest minds on the world's first Open Innovation Marketplace™. Innocentive has been seen in Inc., Wall St. ... http://goinnovate.com/blog/2009/09/17/dwayne-spradlin-ceo-of-innocentive-crowdsourcing-as-innovation/ You can learn to innovate!  Remember when people thought that leaders were born, not made?  Many people now think the same thing about innovation.  Talk to people who are successful in either of these fields and you will find people who think (a lot) about what they are doing.  Successful ... http://goinnovate.com/blog/2009/09/08/yes-you-can/