Lead…
To what degree do leaders in your organization foster an environment in which discovering the “big questions” is encouraged as much as coming up with workable solution?
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Nicos Paschali
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Be well…
Be kind to everyone you meet. You may never see them again. Enjoy your weekend!
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Be a great parent!
Why is parenthood filled with so much anxiety? Because the goal of modern, middle-class parents—to raise happy children—is so elusive.
By loading kids with high expectations and micromanaging their lives at every turn, parents aren’t actually helping. Parents should stop defining their children’s success via grades and test scores. Instead, they should focus on providing the oldest idea of all: “unconditional love”.
Family practices should encourage flexibility, bottom-up idea flow, constant feedback and accountability, where their “Kids” can pick their own punishments. We should tell every young girl and boy to be comfortable with imperfection.
Time to “talk with” your children? And not “talk to” your children.
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Innovation or Resistance?
Does your organization already have a renaissance-type corporate culture that functions as a powerful catalyst for continuous innovation? Or does it have more of a medieval management culture that is acting as an innovation anchor by holding people back in their efforts to be creative?
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Leveraging resources.
Could you imagine what would have happen if you daily consider yourself as a collection of skills and assets that can be recombined or stretched into new opportunities?
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New value-creating mindset.
Innovation is now recognized globally as the principal driver of growth, productivity and competitive business performance. That’s why companies everywhere are racing to build a sustainable capability for innovation that will continuously produce new value-creating products, services, strategies and business models.
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Beyond the suggestion box.
“Every company – (and therefore leader) needs to learn how to use employee imagination”. Do you know how to do it?
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Growth Opportunities…
Did you know that innovators look at a company not as a set of business units but as a collection of core competencies and strategic assets that can potentially be repurposed, redeployed, and recombined to create new growth opportunities?
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Fear?
What we fear is usually what we don’t understand. So we can lose our fear by making things more familiar through training and experience, and by taking increasing risks in small steps. Go out and do it today!
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Is daily innovation worth it?
Do you really want to make radical business innovation an everyday reality inside your organisation?Four key business perspectives will enable you to discover groundbreaking opportunities for innovation and growth:- Challenging Orthodoxies—What if the dominant conventions in your field, market, or industry are outdated, unnecessary, or just plain wrong?
- Harnessing Trends—Where are the shifts and discontinuities that will, now and in the future, provide the energy you need for a major leap forward?
- Leveraging Resources—How can you arrange existing skills and assets into new combinations that add up to more than the sum of their parts?
- Understanding Needs—What are the unmet needs and frustrations that everyone else is simply ignoring?
Nicos Paschali, International Author, Designer & Facilitator of Learning Workshops. Mental Discipline Coach. 
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