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    Why you should keep a notebook (Part 1)

    Business, Published on 05/01/2023

    » What is one thing that Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and Richard Branson have in common? Among others, all these creative leaders are known for being passionate about maintaining a notebook. Do you? If yes, congratulations.

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    Dos and don'ts for a successful innovation project

    Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 21/01/2016

    » At the beginning of a new year, many businesses consider doing something innovative to refresh their products and services or the ways they promote and deliver them. Planning and successfully running an innovation project is both a science and an art. Today, I will share with you eight dos and don'ts. Beware of the don'ts to avoid project failure (mediocre, ordinary ideas and outputs) and heed as many of the dos as possible to enjoy project success (extraordinary ideas and innovative results).

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    The world hates innovation; this is why

    Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 28/09/2017

    » The prolific American innovator Charles Kettering once said: "The world hates change. Yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." Innovation means change. Ergo, the world hates innovation, one might conclude. Let's investigate Kettering's statement to understand why, and what it means for us as innovators.

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    Picturing 'The Beginner's Guide to Innovation'

    Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 11/05/2017

    » Happy anniversary, Creativity Un-Limited! It's been 10 years since this column first appeared in the Bangkok Post. Over the last decade, I've produced 257 articles on business creativity and innovation, totalling 240,000 words or enough for six books. So when my US business partner asked me if I could write an "airport" business book that provides an overview of core innovation concepts in an easy-to-read style, I thought: "That's easy. I already have all the content."

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    The Yin of creativity: for happy, hard-working staff

    Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 02/03/2017

    » 'How can we make our organisation more creative? And please, keep it simple," a client interested in creativity training for some Asian senior executives asked me.

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    10 for 10: Entrepreneurial Lessons from a Decade-Long Survivor

    Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 06/08/2015

    » Hooray! This week, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Thinkergy Ltd. Most start-ups never make it through the roughs and troughs of their first decade, and we feel very grateful to have survived!

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    Stop copying and start creating

    Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 05/02/2015

    » 'The 'surplus society' has a surplus of similar companies, employing similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, coming up with similar ideas, producing similar things, with similar prices and similar quality," Kjell Nordstroem and Jonas Ridderstrale said in their book Funky Business. Can a company expect extraordinary results if what they do is what other companies ordinarily do?

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    Are you ready to be an entrepreneur? (Part 2)

    Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 25/09/2014

    » My last column identified five decisions you need to make when starting a new venture: Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset? Is your business idea really worth pursuing? When should you start? Should you go it alone or with partners? How to structure a partnership? Here are the other five decisions you must consider carefully to have a good chance of succeeding as an entrepreneur.

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    Fear of losing may be why you're not winning

    Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 14/08/2014

    » As part of the decision-making course I teach to graduate students in business, I introduce them to prospect theory and the related cognitive biases. One of these biases, loss aversion, helps explain why many individuals and organisations are unable to realise their full innovation potential.

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    Marketers should put their trust in innovators

    Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 19/03/2015

    » 'Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation," American management consultant, educator and author Peter Drucker once said, and he was right, although I would reverse the order, as innovation must create the products to be marketed. But helping marketers with innovation has shown me that marketers think like Drucker, with marketing being primary and innovation secondary.

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