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You’ve Got to Read This: September 13, 2011

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Need marketing inspiration? Kivi Leroux Miller collected dozens of examples of quirky, kooky and off-beat approaches to nonprofit marketing and fundraising. Lots of people know just enough about marketing to be dangerous. Are you sick of hearing about innovation? I hope not. photo by Fergus Ray Murray (Flickr).

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Are You an Innovator or a Producer?

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Are Innovation and Production at Odds? HBR posted a good article recently about Why Managers Don’t Really Want to Innovate. The article pointed out that most companies are not willing to devote time to innovation because innovative time steals from production time. The same can be said of innovation.

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Don't Let Ego Kill Innovation in your Organization

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Don’t Let Your Ego Get in the Way of Innovation. The biggest enemy of innovation is not fear (that can be overcome). If you are satisfied with your organization’s success there’s no reason to innovate. Innovation doesn’t get killed by “…but we’ve always done it this way.”

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The Trick to Innovating with Gen Y

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How Do You Innovate With Millennials? Innovating with millennials sounds like a no-brainer. While they have the enthusiasm, they may need the goals of your innovation to be laid out for them. Another way to capitalize on their exuberance and get them innovating is by placing them in charge of the “little things.”

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You’ve Got to Read This: February 10, 2011

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Innovation starts with self-critique (which is why it’s so rare) , says Peter Linett. His litmus test for innovation: “I ask myself whether it feels like it was designed by that kind of institution, within its traditions, values, and personality — its comfort zone. Image by Nick Bygon.

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You’ve Got to Read This: January 18, 2011

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Yes, it would be great if staff had the right mindset for innovation. Tagged: Association , Conference , Innovation , Marketing , Social Networking , Web and Social Media , Writing. Creating the organizational culture that will bring about these changes? That’s the challenge. Take for instance #2, Mindset.

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The Results of Management Innovation

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The Results of Management Innovation. In a recent post I challenged everyone to consider innovating management , rather than just our products, services, or business models. That implies, of course, that if we actually do management innovation, we will be solving a problem. We can’t move when the market moves.