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Pitching Your Association’s Online Community Strategy: How to Overcome Common Objections

Socious

Whenever you are trying to do something innovative, you can rest assured there will always be haters. Think, Zune circa 2006 (you can go ahead and look that up on your iPod touch).

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Bringing Innovation to Life

Jamie Notter

Bringing Innovation to Life. The description from the brochure: People make innovation happen. Ok, but how do they do it? Effort will be unstable, so learn how to be generative. Innovation implies change, and change often pushes people’s fear button. Effort will be unstable, so learn how to be generative.

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The Results of Management Innovation

Jamie Notter

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. Moneyball and Management Innovation. Website. {

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Moneyball and Management Innovation

Jamie Notter

Moneyball and Management Innovation. All that experience and intuition, the entire industry’s decades-old model… how could things have changed that much, right? And yet they are wrong, the model isn’t working anymore, and instead of listening to the guy in the room who sees it and knows how to fix it, they treat him like a punk.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Facilitation Friday #21: How to.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Facilitation Friday #21: How to Wind Down. As a result, long-term group capability and capacity is not increased, nor is the sense of community among the groups members or their satisfaction with how time was spent.

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The Strength of Weak Ties

Jamie Notter

Check out this great interview with Andrew McAfee of MIT’s Center for Digital Business on how to talk to CEOs about social media. The authors pointed out that cities have always been hotbeds of innovation BECAUSE of all the weak links – and the same concept certainly seems to apply to social media. December 2006 (10).

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Change is Not Hard

Jamie Notter

Most of what we face is in those bullets above, so let’s figure out how to deal with that rather than lamenting about how hard change is. Figuring out how to have an awesome workplace is hard. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation. Want Innovation? November 2006 (9).