How can leaders inspire employees to help their colleagues? The leader of the design firm IDEO, Tim Brown, set out to create a help-friendly organization in order to spur greater creativity. Collaboration is key to effective organizations. But how can leaders encourage helping behaviors among employees? A recent Harvard Business Review article by Teresa Amabile,Read… Read more »
One of our speaker’s from next week’s Next Generation of Government Summit– Fred Dust of IDEO, was featured yesterday in a Huffington Post article entitled “Obama Administration Pushes Forward on Innovation Throughout Agencies” Favorite
This might be the best 7 minutes I’ve spent today. The brilliant Chris Flink of IDEO shares thoughts on how Suckiness is an Opportunity. LOVE THIS QUOTE: (a beauty, IMHO): “Next time you bump into something sucky, embrace its suckiness. Lean into its suckiness. Obsess over every detail of its suckiness.” And so with thatRead… Read more »
We’ve been super busy planning our next LAUNCH sustainability forum. The topic for our second forum is “sustaining human life.” LAUNCH is our incubator program that searches for visionaries, whose world-class ideas, technologies or programs show great promise for making tangible impacts on society. At each LAUNCH forum, ten innovators and 40 thought leaders comeRead… Read more »