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Category Archives: Innovation Knowledge
Move faster in the morning with a time management assessment
Lately I have been most passionate about helping people to innovate their own lives, solve their own problems, respond to change, and transform themselves at a higher level. This begins with identifying a challenge. A common challenge I see many … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation Knowledge, Personal Development
Tagged activity, assessment, coffee, make time, morning, save time, start, time management
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How to Find Keywords or Themes using an Online Word Frequency Analysis Tool
I’ve been looking for a free online tool to help identify keywords, tags, or themes in text. I discovered an amazing website called Textalyser that helps you to analyze the frequency of keywords. This is a great tool for starting … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation Knowledge, Research
Tagged keywords, online, qualitative data analysis, tags, word frequency tool
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Innovation and Creativity Articles and Videos on Facebook and Twitter
Be sure to connect with me on Facebook and Twitter where I share excellent innovation and creativity articles and videos. I’m always reading articles from great sources like FastCompany and Harvard Business Review. I’m also scouring YouTube and TedTalks for … Continue reading
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Tagged article, creativity, facebook, FastCompany, innovation, leadership, twitter, video
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3 simple strategies from the pros: How to title your blog posts and articles
We need titles for many things: ideas, concepts, images, tweets, social media and blog posts, articles, reports, and books. In an earlier blog post I shared some insights from my research on bestselling nonfiction books for how to create better … Continue reading
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Curiosity colons: Learning how to title from best selling books
What can we learn from how best selling non-fiction books are titled to help us title our own ideas and messages so that people understand our ideas and want to act on them? I’ve been thinking about this lately. I’ve … Continue reading
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Self-Innovation: Using 5 Innovator’s DNA Skills to Build a Better Fruit Fly Trap
The Five Innovator’s DNA skills are observing, associating, questioning, experimenting, and networking. You can put these skills to use in everyday situations. The problem. I had fruit flies one summer day. This is fine in the 10th grade biology classroom … Continue reading
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Incremental +1 or Breakthrough x2 Innovation?
Would you rather go +1 or x2 in your ideas and innovations? How about life? How about at work? When innovating and doing things better we have choices. Do we want a slight improvement, a +1, an incremental innovation? Or, … Continue reading
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Speech on Developing and Communicating Innovative Ideas
I had been blogging about the process of creating a visual keynote speech. I recorded a final prototype version of a speech on “developing and communicating innovative ideas” from my home studio and posted the video here. I did this … Continue reading
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How to create a visual keynote speech
I’m doing a pecha kucha keynote speech for an event called Showcase at the University of Wisconsin. This is my story of how I’m developing it. A pecha kucha is a structured framework for a presentation. It consists of 20 … Continue reading
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Do Not Create Alone: How to Develop a Title Using 2 Question Surveys
I am finishing a book based on my dissertation research of high quality leadership programs. The purpose of the book is to help people innovate their own leadership programs and teach leadership in a way that works with how people … Continue reading
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Tagged book, co-creation, co-development, nonfication book title, Research, selection, survey, title
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