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It’s Not Science Fiction—How an Idea Lab Might Just Create an Alternate Timeline for Your Firm

It’s Not Science Fiction—How an Idea Lab Might Just Create an Alternate Timeline for Your Firm

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best. Ideas are the engines of innovation, yet too often they are visible for just a flash of time. In reality, we need ways to curate and develop ideas. Try building an idea lab. All you need to get started is a few spare walls, some low-cost materials and some starter ideas! Just be careful, as you may very well change your firm’s future in the process.

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How Integrative Thinking Promotes Innovative Problem-Solving

How Integrative Thinking Promotes Innovative Problem-Solving

Integrative thinking is the process of using the tension from two conflicting approaches to a problem in pursuit of a new and innovative outcome. Instead of responding to competitive or strategic situations with the same approaches, try these 5 tools to identify new and superior approaches.

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Leadership Caffeine™—Lead Differently

Leadership Caffeine™—Lead Differently

In our development of leaders, we focus on imprinting them with the same (important) but limiting behaviors. In today’s world of change, it’s essential for us to break this mold and work harder at developing and supporting individuals who lead differently.

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Leadership Caffeine™—Learn, Adapt, Influence

Leadership Caffeine™—Learn, Adapt, Influence

The most effective leaders understand their role in breaking away from the gravitational pull of the status quo. They focus daily on the learn, adapt, influence cycle as they strive to help their teams and firms level-up

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