Lately I’ve been interested in learning about Yogi Berra. He was a former New York Yankee who won many MVPs and World Series titles. What I really like about him are his philosophical quotes. They are simple, profound, and bring a smile to my face. They also make me think. I noticed many of them …
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I’ve been learning about and exploring the powerful artificial intelligence tools lately and getting a sense for their impact on how we innovate and create. The three AI tools I use most often are from OpenAI but I also like MidJourney for generating images. I’ve recorded a demo video that shows how to get started …
This is a guest post by Harry Webne-Behrman. This article is adapted from his recent book, What Matters in This Moment: Leading Groups Through Uncertain Times. One of my favorite books is Orbiting the Giant Hairball (1996), where author Gordon MacKenzie helps us focus on how to remain creative and innovative in the face of …
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I’ve gotten interested in learning about Mr. Rogers lately thanks to the wonderful documentary, “Won’t you be my Neighbor.” I’d also like to see the Tom Hanks “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” movie. I discovered that Mr. Rogers was a great activity designer and group facilitator! In researching Mr. Rogers on YouTube, I noticed …
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I learned the other week that one of the newly named UNESCO world heritage sites is three blocks away from me! This sent me down many rabbit holes of curiosity to learn more about Frank Lloyd Wright. My favorite sources were: 1. Ken Burns American Lives documentary 2. Looking at real estate listings of FLW …
Strategize, design, and innovate with these online workshops we’ve developed. Innovation is the future, and we’re here to help. Innovation Learning provides online innovation training courses and programs to help you develop key fundamental innovation and leadership skills for your life and organization. Here are six workshops for you to try at every stage of …
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Learning to Swim [Innovate] Again How to develop a big skill in small steps With so much change happening in our world and important new things to learn, the skill of how we can learn to do new things (or old things in new ways) has become critical. How do we learn and develop skill? It …
I’ve recently had two of the most powerful learning experiences of my professional career. Both experiences involved projects in which I accepted a new challenge. One, I found and interviewed 107 innovative leaders at a wide variety of organizations to learn how they were learning and doing innovation. Two, based on things I learned while …
The key to still winning the race after falling is to not spend that one second while falling considering staying down. It is the one second you have to strategize launching back up to create a life story. When you fall your mind has three ways it can spend that one second of falling. You …
After teaching and refining my innovation system for years, I am happy to release the pdf version of my new book: Innovation Step-by-Step: How to Systematically Create & Develop Ideas for Any Challenge. Innovation is a high value process. People are constantly being asked to innovate, and companies love declaring how much their organizations value …
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