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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: The Cost of Not Being You

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. The Cost of Not Being You. "We When we stand out from the crowd, when we do not conform to others expectations, we often have to pay a cost. So yes, the cost of being you will sometimes be great.

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The Feeling of Failure

Jamie Notter

But as Seth Godin points out in a recent post , what we are actually afraid of is the FEELING of failure, not the actual impact or costs of the failure. The feeling of failing will hit you whether that experiment cost you $10 and 15 minutes of time, or if it cost you $100,000 and two FTEs for a year. December 2006 (10).

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Long Live Your Education Sessions: How To Repurpose, Reuse and Recoup Meeting Costs

Tom Morrison

The key to the whole innovation was inventorying our content and then starting to ask… “What if we….?” The next bit of innovation was purchasing a $300 HD camera and a tri-pod. Remember this… it is more cost effective to convince your current members to spend their money on meaningful programs than it is to recruit new members.

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The Hourglass Blog: Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic

The Hourglass Blog

Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic. Heres another great HBR post describing another set of "principles of innovation." I say "another," of course, because of my work with the WSAE Innovation Task Force, where we helped define four key principles of innovation from the case studies we examined in the for-profit sector.

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Preparing for an Entirely New Economy

Jamie Notter

It is an economy in which the driving force is innovation. Innovation, nimble, continually offering new value, trust…sound familiar? They are not organized for continuous innovation. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Crowdsourcing.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Engaging Members to Crowdsource Solutions and Innovations. Companies increasingly look to customer-generated innovations, co-creating products and services with the input and effort of end users. Dec 2006 (3).

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.21.17

Reid All About it

LMS provider WBT Systems writes about instructional design innovations that associations could borrow from “ModPo” and a few other award-winning MOOCs. Recognize the difference between soft and hard costs. A few years ago I took an excellent online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry. Watch/participate live or view the recording.

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