by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 22, 2012 | Employee Experience, How to become a creative leader, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way
I recently conducted an innovation benchmark survey on a healthcare company and one of its lowest results was: ‘Our culture tolerates an occasional failure.’ Any astute leader can see the problem here. Innovation involves ‘trial and error’ and, by definition, failure....
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 22, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to become a creative leader, Workshop Facilitator
In my problem-solving model which I outlined in my first book (The Idea Generator, 2007), I outlined how many leaders get ‘stuck’ in their thinking (and action). My contention is that if you always define a problem in the same way and you view it in the same way, not...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 12, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to become a creative leader, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session
Does this sound familiar? Your team has just run a successful brainstorming or Ideas Blitz session and you have generated some amazing ideas or solutions. Then you go and sell these to your boss and they are all rejected. What just happened? How might you increase...
