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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!
The innovation manager of the future
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 09/07/2015
» Recently I attended the International Society for Professional Innovation Management Innovation Conference in Budapest, Hungary. I presented a paper and ran a discussion on creative leadership, and also attended a workshop on "Constructing the Open Innovation Manager: Renaissance 2.0". In this workshop, innovation experts from both academia and industry explored the knowledge and skill set that the next generation of innovation managers will need in order to successfully operate.
Running the creative transformation marathon (Part 2)
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 25/06/2015
» My last column compared an organisation that wants to become innovative with a couch potato who wants to run a marathon. Both need something that makes them want to change. Both need to check their fitness and readiness for change. Both must resolve to change and then prove their willingness by committing resources (time and money) to it.
The creative transformation marathon (Part 1)
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 11/06/2015
» Imagine being a sluggish, overweight couch potato. One day you think: "I want to run a marathon." Is that realistic? We all know of examples of people who have done this — but we know there are many more who tried and failed or never got beyond the thought.
What's your style that lets you succeed?
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 28/05/2015
» It was 8.27am last Sunday when my phone rang. I was reviewing my presentation for a keynote talk that I was supposed to deliver two-and-a-half hours later at an international conference. "Where are you?" the caller asked. "The conference organisers are looking for you. You're supposed to start delivering your keynote in a few minutes."
How analytical thinking complements creative thinking
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 14/05/2015
» 'Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it," said the American entrepreneur Henry Ford. Thomas Watson of IBM agreed: "All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."
Tips on how to fight overload and stay creative
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 30/04/2015
» In my previous column, I talked about how overloaded we all feel these days. Caused by technological progress, headcount cuts and the bleeding of work hours into leisure time, this overload is a difficult feature of our lives today. I've shown that work overload hurts communication, productivity and creativity. In this column, I'll show how time pressure and overload kill creativity, and what you can do as an individual to fight back.
Overloaded: When the work never seems to stop
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 16/04/2015
» How many unread emails are in your inbox? How many of them are older than a week? How many instant messages do you get each day? How many phone calls? How many meetings every week? How much "real" work — work that produces something — do you do each week? Do you feel you get enough done? How many more work hours would you need to feel that way?
Creativity along the road less travelled
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 02/04/2015
» 'Two roads diverged in a wood and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference", wrote Robert Frost in "The Road Not Taken".
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.