As Dr. Evans Baiya and I were researching innovation for our book, The Innovator’s Advantage, we came upon an astounding statistic: 85-93% of all innovations fail! We wanted to know why, so we dove deeper, using research and our years of experience helping companies with innovation and development. And we discovered one commonality: Leaders did…
Are you looking for the next big thing? Searching for an idea that will attract new customers, improve your offerings, or simply give you a leg up on your competition? The good news is you probably have most of what you need already at your fingertips: Your employees will be the defining factor to your…
In this episode, Lori McNeill shares how to inspire innovation within your team. The secret? Working as a team. Episode Transcript Today’s question is: how to inspire innovation with your team? Well, I’ll tell you if you look back through history, innovation was never about just one person. It doesn’t matter what idea it was, it…
I have a bias to confess to. The phrase “we are in this boat together” sparks an almost irrational irritability. While we are in this pandemic storm together, we are most certainly not in the same boat. As leaders, we know instinctively that some of our team members are flailing around in a dinghy with…
Sam Fife, Director of Innovation at Better Business Bureau Great West + Pacific shares how the Innovator’s Advantage and the Innovation Fitness Assessment™ has impacted company culture and helped create a culture of innovation. Video Transcript Sam Fife: The biggest impact for me, I think, is realizing that everyone in the organization has so much…
A story from the 2019 Innovator’s Advantage Academy with Better Business Bureau Great West + Pacific. If there is one takeaway from my journey into the world of innovation, it’s that truly successful innovation requires courage and the willingness to let go of uncertainty. Welcome back to the Innovator’s Advantage Academy—a behind-the-scenes, unscripted backstory of what…
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