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Innovation: Running Experiments and Learning

Leading Answers

In my last article on  Incubating Innovation , we explored the culture and mindset of accountable experimentation. Within agile frameworks, the team retrospective is the primary workshop for planning and evaluating experiments. Yet most team retrospectives I see are broken. This is a more useful format.

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Poisoning the well: Why micromanagement is bad for business

Runrun.it

One might even hazard to say that tolerating micromanagement can run the risk of the company eventually failing due to high staff turnovers, lack of talent retention, poor productivity, poor creativity, and the like. Causes innovation to be delayed. Causes poor communication all throughout the organization.

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Becoming Agile: Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. It's really about becoming a learning organization.one that's innovative enough to survive.

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#PMOT – Who are the Project Managers on Twitter to Follow?

Online PM Courses

Donnie’s Article at Online PM Courses: A Simple Way to Develop Interpersonal Skills for Project Managers. We make Agile teams become amazing, check out our free online masterclass: agilesumo.com. Developing Leaders. Exploring trends and developments in project management today. PMI’s blog team: @ PMvoices.

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Episode 170 – Integrating Creative Problem Solving and Project Management

Velociteach

Dr. Amy Climer shares how to increase creativity to maximize innovation. Hear how to facilitate the clarify/ideate/develop stages of the creative problem-solving process to a successful implementation. We know you’re also looking for opportunities to acquire PDUs, your Professional Development Units, towards recertifications.

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Smarter Faster Better Book Review: 4 Lessons Learned

Project Management Hacks

motivation, goals, team performance and others). Overall, I found the book to be an insightful discussion of new insights and methods to boost productivity, innovation and achievement. Setting and achieving goals is an important skill and practice for everyone to develop. In this review, I will highlight four areas.

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Creative Thinking: How to Improve Your Creative Ability

Project Bliss

Developing Individual Creative Thinking. Studies have been done on meditation and how it can aid in the creative process. Studies show that using divergent thinking such as finding alternate uses for items can lead to creative results. James Altucher suggests to write down ten ideas per day, even if they’re bad ideas.