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How hard is it to innovate? Not once but over and over? How can you repeatedly implement great new products, processes or services? Continuous innovation is not easy and if you keep using the same method you will experience diminishing results. Try innovating how you innovate by employing some of these 21 ideas.
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| Focus on What Went Right |
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 In looking for improvements and innovations we tend to focus our attention on what went wrong. We try to fix problems. A typical management meeting consists of a group of people who are looking at what is not working and trying their hardest to come up with ways to put things right. But in the process they are often allocating blame, arguing, becoming negative and getting frustrated.
In addition to fixing what is wrong we should spend time examining what is right. Look for success stories, talk to delighted customers, ask them what makes us better than the others and then build on that. Find the right partners to compensate the areas where we are ordinary or weak and free up time to find creative new ways to exploit our strengths. We need to find unexpected and unusual things that we do really well because they can give us the competitive advantage we need. Let's focus on what our organisation is really good at and build our success on that.
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| How to be a Brilliant Conversationalist |
How can you improve your conversational skills to become a welcome sight at every party and social event you attend? Here are some pointers that will help. |
| Seven Great Questions to ask at a Job Interview |
If you are going for an interview as a prospective employee then you should do some research. Read the job description and requirements carefully. Browse the web site to see how the organization presents itself. Search for news items and comments about the company on news sites and blogs. It is important to have some questions prepared and here are a few that could really help:
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| Rachmaninov had big hands |
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| A Little Puzzle |
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Put these words into pairs; tuna, plaice, carp, ling, mat, piano, star, ark. You will know when you get it. Thanks to Chris Burscough for this one. Email me if you want the answer. |
