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What is Innovation?

December 17, 2009
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| Categories: Innovation, perspective, Reflection

Talking about innovation always opens Pandora’s box (see comments on my post Innovation in Indian Learning Industry). Wikipedia defines innovation as: a new way of doing something or "new stuff that is made useful". It may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations.According to Merriam-Webster, innovation is:Main Entry: in•no•va•tionPronunciation: "i-n&-'vA-sh&nFunction: noun1 : the introduction of something new2 : a new idea, method or device Another site RealInnovation.com says: An innovation can be big or small. Brand-new or just a bit different,…

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Analysis Paralysis and Lizard Brain

October 14, 2009
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| Categories: Analysis Paralysis, coaching, Lizard Brain, perspective

Seth Godin talks about quieting the lizard brain within us and finishing what we started. He says thrash the ideas up front, don’t get scared about shiping the product and start thrashing the idea later in the development stage. Of course, we also have the analysis praralysis syndrome where we might spend too much time in analyzing the idea without ever starting it. You don’t finish what you don’t start, right. Okay, so basically what everyone is saying is move your blooming part-of-your-anatomy and get on with delivering on your…

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Don’t Like It

August 19, 2009
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| Categories: feedback, perspective, responses

Four Three people don’t like my post Great Work is Not Recognized. Would love to hear more about different perspectives.You can add your perspective in comments to the post. If you are viewing the post on the home page of this blog, click either the title of the post or ‘# comments’ link just below the title.Scroll down and at the end of the post and existing comments, click Post a Comment link. Looking forward to hearing more from you.

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