This document provides 16 counterintuitive ideas about motivation, innovation, and leadership across three sections: Motivation, Innovation, and Leadership. Some of the key ideas discussed include doubting yourself can be more effective than self-affirmation, paying people too much can motivate higher performance, eliminating sales commissions can increase sales, and maximizing shareholder value is a flawed goal. The document encourages questioning conventional wisdom and flipping common beliefs to find more effective approaches.
Isolation can be a good thing when properly defined and utilized. Specifically:
1. Isolation allows for complete and utter focus on specific, clearly defined goals and intentions.
2. The document provides tips for using isolation to increase one's value and net worth through vision, planning, building relationships, and asking effective questions.
3. Isolation of the key people, companies, and introductions one needs allows individuals to efficiently advance their goals through strategic networking.
Talk given in March 2013 at Dublin City Public Libraries as part of their public lecture series on career development. Prepared and delivered by John Deely BA MSc, Occupational Psychologist with Pinpoint (www.pinpoint.ie)
Our latest white paper shares new global research based on 7000 employee surveys in the US, Brazil, UK, Germany, Australia, Singapore and China, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. We look at questions like: Can anyone be creative? How do employers build creative cultures? Is playing at work the answer? What are the business rewards of inspiring creativity—and the risks of failing to?
We are proud to announce our 35th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-seventh Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
Here is our inaugural issue of Innovation Excellence Weekly. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
Suzanne describes two accomplishments from her past that reveal her motivated skills. In one story from age 9, she bravely rescued a cat from a house fire, showing courage in a tense situation. In another story from 10 years ago, she enjoyed her fast-paced job selling advertising where she was energetic, assertive and successful at securing new clients. These stories indicate Suzanne's motivated skills are taking initiative in high-pressure scenarios and enjoying an active work environment that allows her to be energetic and assertive.
Isolation can be a good thing when properly defined and utilized. Specifically:
1. Isolation allows for complete and utter focus on specific, clearly defined goals and intentions.
2. The document provides tips for using isolation to increase one's value and net worth through vision, planning, building relationships, and asking effective questions.
3. Isolation of the key people, companies, and introductions one needs allows individuals to efficiently advance their goals through strategic networking.
Talk given in March 2013 at Dublin City Public Libraries as part of their public lecture series on career development. Prepared and delivered by John Deely BA MSc, Occupational Psychologist with Pinpoint (www.pinpoint.ie)
Our latest white paper shares new global research based on 7000 employee surveys in the US, Brazil, UK, Germany, Australia, Singapore and China, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. We look at questions like: Can anyone be creative? How do employers build creative cultures? Is playing at work the answer? What are the business rewards of inspiring creativity—and the risks of failing to?
We are proud to announce our 35th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-seventh Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
Here is our inaugural issue of Innovation Excellence Weekly. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
Suzanne describes two accomplishments from her past that reveal her motivated skills. In one story from age 9, she bravely rescued a cat from a house fire, showing courage in a tense situation. In another story from 10 years ago, she enjoyed her fast-paced job selling advertising where she was energetic, assertive and successful at securing new clients. These stories indicate Suzanne's motivated skills are taking initiative in high-pressure scenarios and enjoying an active work environment that allows her to be energetic and assertive.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
We are proud to announce our twenty-second Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
50 Ways to Become More Professionally ExcellentLeslie Bradshaw
This presentation will give you practical, next-level tips to help you become the best version of your professional self.
After powering through it, you will be armed with the tactics you need to grow and nurture your network, deliver world class work product, earn trust and respect, successfully collaborate, and generally take your game up a notch so you advance your career (and have plenty of fun along the way).
Insights will come from successful professionals, pop culture, and Bradshaw's own learnings as a sought-after employee, effective leader, and industry-recognized pioneer.
This presentation was originally delivered as a part of the University of Chicago Alumni Career Program on May 19, 2015.
The document discusses building buy-in for change initiatives within an organization. It emphasizes getting commitment from leadership and others by focusing on what is best for the organization and its goals. It recommends clearly communicating the reasons for change and addressing people's concerns directly. The document also stresses practicing transparency, welcoming input from all levels, and knowing when some ideas may not be sellable to leadership.
A Look at How We Reward the Work of Today - and TomorrowJ. Kim Scholes
This document discusses six developments affecting how work is rewarded:
1) Work is increasingly social and connected. Rewards are moving from individual to peer-based and viral.
2) There is a focus on work that matters and makes an impact. Rewards are being designed to tie work to employees' passions and show how their contributions make a difference.
3) Salaries are being viewed as a long-term investment in employees, not just a yearly expense. Rewards must support long-term contributions.
4) There is an adaptability imperative as the nature of work changes rapidly. Variable pay is controversial but can engage employees if well-designed to avoid unintended consequences.
We are proud to announce our twenty-sixth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our fifteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
The document discusses the #1 taboo reason why members don't renew their membership - they are scared and lonely owning a business. It presents 4 truths about business owners: they find business scary; owners are scared people; scared people isolate; and isolation leads to loneliness. The solution is for Chambers of Commerce to connect members to each other through fun, non-traditional activities and events like starting a Toastmasters club, improv classes, member interviews, business videos, speed-friending and walk-and-talk meetings to reduce fear and loneliness. Connecting members in this way improves retention and growth.
We are proud to announce our twenty-first Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
This document discusses appreciative inquiry and positive change. It provides an overview of appreciative inquiry principles and methods, including focusing on strengths rather than deficiencies, generative questions, and envisioning ideal futures. Examples are given of appreciative inquiry topics and processes used in organizational change initiatives.
Two Network Marketers Want To Set The Record Straight About Network MarketingJason Boreyko
Michaela Schell and Joelle Suess are two local network marketers who wanted to dispel common misconceptions about the industry. Schell got involved in direct sales five years ago through Rodan + Fields to balance work and family, while Suess started seven years ago with Beachbody as a student looking for extra income. They addressed five common myths: 1) Only people at the top make money, saying success requires hard work and an equal starting point; 2) Network marketing has cult-like tendencies, but it fosters a team mentality; 3) It attracts those with little business experience, but skills can be learned; 4) Pyramid structures are inherently bad, but the industry model has changed;
We are proud to announce our fourteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
The document discusses the importance of prioritizing people over profit in business. It summarizes Dale Partridge's book on developing a strong company culture that values employees. The 7 key attitudes for boosting culture and performance are discussed: above-standard compensation, empathy, perks, motivation, and culture. Developing a people-first culture is emphasized as critical for customer loyalty and business success.
We are proud to announce our nineteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
This document provides guidance on how to successfully pitch new ideas within a corporate environment to avoid having the idea rejected or "ideaicide". It discusses the importance of understanding your audience, including the corporate culture and key individuals. It also stresses the importance of developing a compelling storyline and using relatable metaphors to help the audience understand and get comfortable with new ideas. The document provides tips on identifying who holds power and influence to support an idea as well as how to effectively communicate the benefits and value of the new idea.
The document provides a list of book suggestions for an HR book club. It includes 12 books summarized with the title, author, publication year, Amazon link, themes addressed in the book, and a brief commentary or blurb about each book. The books cover a range of topics related to leadership, organizational culture and development, creativity, ethics and more.
Lord Alli was the first openly gay peer in the British House of Lords. As a young person, his experiences were defined by his race rather than his sexuality. When Tony Blair appointed him to the House of Lords, he realized he had a responsibility to make sure that young people, black people, and gay people continued to be appointed to positions of influence. Throughout his career, Lord Alli has been open about his sexuality but has not wanted it to define him. He has tried to create inclusive workplaces where people can be open about all aspects of their lives.
INFLUENCE: A Brain-based Approach for Stand-out LeadershipDan Beverly
Great leadership is nowhere better marked than by the ability to improve another person's thinking. In this series, get the brain-based approach to 3 key leadership traits, starting here with: INFLUENCE.
The document summarizes key lessons and takeaways from the Planningness 2014 conference. It discusses 9 things that will change the author's approach to work based on insights from various speakers. These include focusing on describing things interestingly rather than proving things, being radically ordinary to create relatable messaging, making work that makes oneself uncomfortable, embracing unconventional research approaches, moving beyond deck presentations, cultivating conditions for creativity, revisiting the roots of planning, finding real problems not just solutions, and getting hands-on. The author reflects on how these lessons will shape a more thoughtful, risk-taking and impactful approach to planning work.
The document discusses a study conducted by Jack Morton Worldwide on creativity in business. Some key findings from the study include:
- While most employees believe creativity is important for business success, there is a gap between this belief and leadership support for creative thinking in companies.
- Creative thinking benefits businesses through innovation, growth, and attracting and retaining talent, yet many companies do not actively create environments to support it.
- The study provides recommendations for how companies can better support creativity, such as encouraging collaboration between employees, allowing time for play and leisure to spark ideas, giving freedom to explore ideas without fear of failure, and providing an inspiring work environment.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
We are proud to announce our twenty-second Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
50 Ways to Become More Professionally ExcellentLeslie Bradshaw
This presentation will give you practical, next-level tips to help you become the best version of your professional self.
After powering through it, you will be armed with the tactics you need to grow and nurture your network, deliver world class work product, earn trust and respect, successfully collaborate, and generally take your game up a notch so you advance your career (and have plenty of fun along the way).
Insights will come from successful professionals, pop culture, and Bradshaw's own learnings as a sought-after employee, effective leader, and industry-recognized pioneer.
This presentation was originally delivered as a part of the University of Chicago Alumni Career Program on May 19, 2015.
The document discusses building buy-in for change initiatives within an organization. It emphasizes getting commitment from leadership and others by focusing on what is best for the organization and its goals. It recommends clearly communicating the reasons for change and addressing people's concerns directly. The document also stresses practicing transparency, welcoming input from all levels, and knowing when some ideas may not be sellable to leadership.
A Look at How We Reward the Work of Today - and TomorrowJ. Kim Scholes
This document discusses six developments affecting how work is rewarded:
1) Work is increasingly social and connected. Rewards are moving from individual to peer-based and viral.
2) There is a focus on work that matters and makes an impact. Rewards are being designed to tie work to employees' passions and show how their contributions make a difference.
3) Salaries are being viewed as a long-term investment in employees, not just a yearly expense. Rewards must support long-term contributions.
4) There is an adaptability imperative as the nature of work changes rapidly. Variable pay is controversial but can engage employees if well-designed to avoid unintended consequences.
We are proud to announce our twenty-sixth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our fifteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
The document discusses the #1 taboo reason why members don't renew their membership - they are scared and lonely owning a business. It presents 4 truths about business owners: they find business scary; owners are scared people; scared people isolate; and isolation leads to loneliness. The solution is for Chambers of Commerce to connect members to each other through fun, non-traditional activities and events like starting a Toastmasters club, improv classes, member interviews, business videos, speed-friending and walk-and-talk meetings to reduce fear and loneliness. Connecting members in this way improves retention and growth.
We are proud to announce our twenty-first Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
This document discusses appreciative inquiry and positive change. It provides an overview of appreciative inquiry principles and methods, including focusing on strengths rather than deficiencies, generative questions, and envisioning ideal futures. Examples are given of appreciative inquiry topics and processes used in organizational change initiatives.
Two Network Marketers Want To Set The Record Straight About Network MarketingJason Boreyko
Michaela Schell and Joelle Suess are two local network marketers who wanted to dispel common misconceptions about the industry. Schell got involved in direct sales five years ago through Rodan + Fields to balance work and family, while Suess started seven years ago with Beachbody as a student looking for extra income. They addressed five common myths: 1) Only people at the top make money, saying success requires hard work and an equal starting point; 2) Network marketing has cult-like tendencies, but it fosters a team mentality; 3) It attracts those with little business experience, but skills can be learned; 4) Pyramid structures are inherently bad, but the industry model has changed;
We are proud to announce our fourteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
The document discusses the importance of prioritizing people over profit in business. It summarizes Dale Partridge's book on developing a strong company culture that values employees. The 7 key attitudes for boosting culture and performance are discussed: above-standard compensation, empathy, perks, motivation, and culture. Developing a people-first culture is emphasized as critical for customer loyalty and business success.
We are proud to announce our nineteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
This document provides guidance on how to successfully pitch new ideas within a corporate environment to avoid having the idea rejected or "ideaicide". It discusses the importance of understanding your audience, including the corporate culture and key individuals. It also stresses the importance of developing a compelling storyline and using relatable metaphors to help the audience understand and get comfortable with new ideas. The document provides tips on identifying who holds power and influence to support an idea as well as how to effectively communicate the benefits and value of the new idea.
The document provides a list of book suggestions for an HR book club. It includes 12 books summarized with the title, author, publication year, Amazon link, themes addressed in the book, and a brief commentary or blurb about each book. The books cover a range of topics related to leadership, organizational culture and development, creativity, ethics and more.
Lord Alli was the first openly gay peer in the British House of Lords. As a young person, his experiences were defined by his race rather than his sexuality. When Tony Blair appointed him to the House of Lords, he realized he had a responsibility to make sure that young people, black people, and gay people continued to be appointed to positions of influence. Throughout his career, Lord Alli has been open about his sexuality but has not wanted it to define him. He has tried to create inclusive workplaces where people can be open about all aspects of their lives.
INFLUENCE: A Brain-based Approach for Stand-out LeadershipDan Beverly
Great leadership is nowhere better marked than by the ability to improve another person's thinking. In this series, get the brain-based approach to 3 key leadership traits, starting here with: INFLUENCE.
The document summarizes key lessons and takeaways from the Planningness 2014 conference. It discusses 9 things that will change the author's approach to work based on insights from various speakers. These include focusing on describing things interestingly rather than proving things, being radically ordinary to create relatable messaging, making work that makes oneself uncomfortable, embracing unconventional research approaches, moving beyond deck presentations, cultivating conditions for creativity, revisiting the roots of planning, finding real problems not just solutions, and getting hands-on. The author reflects on how these lessons will shape a more thoughtful, risk-taking and impactful approach to planning work.
The document discusses a study conducted by Jack Morton Worldwide on creativity in business. Some key findings from the study include:
- While most employees believe creativity is important for business success, there is a gap between this belief and leadership support for creative thinking in companies.
- Creative thinking benefits businesses through innovation, growth, and attracting and retaining talent, yet many companies do not actively create environments to support it.
- The study provides recommendations for how companies can better support creativity, such as encouraging collaboration between employees, allowing time for play and leisure to spark ideas, giving freedom to explore ideas without fear of failure, and providing an inspiring work environment.
Age of the Opportuneur - The 7 Strategies to Successfully Make a Career Chan...Gary C Brown
Gary Brown's 7 radical strategies to successfully change your career or become self employed regardless of a lack of paid work experience in your field.
The document provides 20 tips for being an effective rebel or change agent within an organization, such as framing new ideas in terms of organizational goals, asking questions that highlight possibilities rather than problems, and sharing credit for successes. The tips are based on the author's experience as a lifelong outlier and business executive, and are meant to help rebels get their ideas heard and implemented.
Creativity and innovation require connecting previously unrelated ideas through skills like questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking. Questioning involves constantly asking questions to challenge assumptions, while observing means getting out into the real world to gain new perspectives. Experimenting takes things apart and prototypes new ideas, and networking with diverse groups of people from different backgrounds and industries generates new connections. Together these skills allow innovators to make new associations that lead to disruptive innovations.
All of us want to be high potential, yet few of us have any idea how. Read on if you want ideas to help you chart your journey through your organization. And if you like it--please share it!
#1 reason why start up fails is because they don’t validate their idea. And the secret of success behind any startup is to validate their product or services using positive feedback loop & other methods.
The document provides guidance on career mapping and planning, including understanding yourself, assessing your skills and interests, researching in-demand fields, and creating career goals and plans. It recommends developing a personal brand, maintaining a positive mindset, and taking action to pursue new opportunities that align with your values and vision.
The document discusses concepts for transforming an organization's culture and leadership approach from managing compliance to enabling possibility thinking. It advocates for altering employees' worldviews to change what they see as possible and appropriate rather than just monitoring behavior. Key points include listening for new ideas rather than just confirming existing beliefs, making declarations about an inspiring future vision rather than just assertions about the present, and how 16% of employees adopting a new idea can create an unstoppable change.
Over two hundred years of collective experience has gone into this document. Those who contributed are not only talented individuals with a wealth of knowledge, but also compassionate professionals who remember what it's like to be a student. They've all taken time out of their already overtaxed schedules to share a lesson based on their own personal experience.
Everyone was asked one simple question: What makes a good advertising intern?
Despite being so open-ended, the question yielded many common themes. Passion for the business, a positive attitude and an amazing work ethic were mentioned a number of times. Enthusiasm was also highlighted often, as was - hmm - proper hygiene. Each and every contributor was brutally honest and candid. Anyone who reads this revealing document owes them a huge debt of gratitude.
The document discusses strategies for improving innovation and creative thinking in organizations. It provides 10 tips for encouraging innovative thinking such as getting rid of mental locks, using both sides of the brain, learning and applying creative thinking techniques, moving outside one's area of expertise, avoiding classic innovation traps, allowing failures, creating process maps, getting out of one's own way, and creating an environment that supports innovation. The document emphasizes that fostering innovation is important for businesses to develop new products/services, find solutions to problems, and stay competitive. Regularly challenging assumptions and traditional ways of thinking can help stimulate innovative ideas.
This document provides a 14-step checklist and exercises to help budding entrepreneurs get started on developing their business venture. It guides them through developing their business idea, mission, target customer, and elevator pitch. The exercises are meant to help entrepreneurs understand their motivations, skills, potential partners, market needs, and first steps to get their business launched. The overall goal is to inspire and support young entrepreneurs in starting meaningful businesses.
The document discusses the importance of corporate culture and the role of consultants in diagnosing and changing culture. It outlines 10 key skills needed for effective consulting: humor, influence, confidence, fearlessness, rapid framing, value generation, intellect, active listening, instantiation, and responsiveness. The document also introduces the Denison model for diagnosing and designing corporate culture to improve profitability through cultural alignment, clear priorities, and concrete steps toward goals.
The document discusses setting goals and objectives, asking key personal and professional questions, and providing tips for achieving goals such as concentrating on the present, aligning actions with passions, and communicating and collaborating effectively. It also lists the to-do list of the author which includes launching various projects and events in Asia Pacific and New Zealand throughout 2013.
I need to make a confession at the outset here.A little over 20 years ago,I did something that I regret,something that I'm not particularly proud of.Something that,in many ways,I wish no one would ever know,but here I feel kind of obliged to reveal.
In the late 1980s,in a moment of youthful indiscretion,I went to law school.
The document discusses setting goals and objectives to achieve what matters most both personally and professionally. It emphasizes focusing on the present and being driven by one's passions and aligned with their goals. The document also provides tips and strategies around communication, collaboration, perspective, reputation, and manifesting great ideas.
There are three dimensions for healthy organizations to grow and innovate. This presentation shares what's needed and where and why companies undermine their success.
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