Innovation Insights
From the desk of Braden Kelley
August 2010 - Vol 4, Issue 7
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| Greetings! | 
Innovation is kind of like losing weight. Everyone says they want to do it, but many lack the required commitment to sustain it. What about you? Is your organization ready to commit to the labor mobility and resource flexibility necessary for continuous innovation? If so, we can help you begin. Blogging Innovation continues to grow and is on pace to register 300,000+ visits and nearly 2 million pages this month. People are starting to reserve their copies of my new book " Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire" and I am taking on new clients and lining up public appearances in preparation for the October launch. In October I will be speaking on innovation and
social media at the UBA Trends Day in Brussels, and leading a
session at the Optimizing Innovation conference in New York City.
Finally, I hope you enjoy our newsletter. Please forward it to any colleagues you think might find it useful.
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Peter Drucker on Innovation
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 Many people struggle with trying to define innovation, or what
innovation is within an organization. I've recently been re-reading one
of the best business books I have, "The Essential Drucker. The Best of
Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Writings on Management" which is a
compendium of his writings.
Drucker wrote that purposeful innovation results from analysis,
systemic review and hard work and can be taught, replicated and learned.
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Unlock Your Inner Edison
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I've always admired Edison's seemingly endless capacity for innovation.
But, after reading the article, I am even more in awe of how focused and
productive he was. The Menlo Park laboratory, Edison famously claimed,
would produce a minor invention every 10 days, and a major breakthrough
every six months.
As if that weren't enough, Edison's invention to-do list was ambitious to say
the least. It included, among other things, a long-distance telephone
transmitter, an electric piano, a new version of the phonograph, ...
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Braden Kelley
Founder, Business Strategy Innovation
Publisher, BloggingInnovation.com
(206) 349-8931
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