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The Innovation Collective
Yesterday, we went to a TEDx event organized and hosted by Xavier University, right here in Cincinnati. There were some tremendously inspiring presentations and speakers which inspired quite a bit of...
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How to Build a Team Without Spending a Dime
One of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs is that they build effective teams. The most successful entrepreneurs and innovators we know have figured out that teams can take on many...
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10 Foundational Books for Driving Sustained Growth
As a recent HBR blog post reminded us, deep, broad reading habits are often a defining characteristic of our greatest leaders and can catalyze insight, innovation, empathy and personal effectiveness....
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Henry Ford Knew It
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Henry Ford said it well all those years ago. With all the talk these days about new ways of leading in a...
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The Evolution of Functional Leadership
There’s a fundamental shift underway, underwritten by transformative technologies, unprecedented global competition and ever-increasing customer/ consumer expectations. This type of broad-scale change...
View Article5 Innovation Imperatives for the MR Industry & Beyond
Here’s a talk we gave at the Cincinnati AMA Market Research Special Interest Group on The Five Innovation Imperatives for the MR Industry. Ended up being a lot of fun with lots of great discussion....
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10 Ways Leaders Undermine Collaborative Cultures
We’ve been reflecting a lot lately on the things that leaders do that inhibit or limit the benefits that more open forms of collaboration can deliver to an organization. We’ve compiled our list of 10...
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The 60/40 Rule
The 60/40 rule is easy to talk about, but difficult to do for many entrepreneurial thinkers. Most of us have a lot to say about our idea. Why it’s breakthrough. Why it’s needed. How it works. How...
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P&G Job Cuts, Top 5 Opportunites for Professional Service Firms
Today, P&G released news that they are ahead of plan in their job cuts. Professional service firms working with big companies, like P&G, that are experiencing job and budget cut-backs, are in a...
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3 Simple Tactics to Drive Employee Engagement Around Ideas
We often hear the question “What can I do to get my employees to contribute business-building ideas?” Often, this question is from leaders who, in an earnest quest for ideas, have tried the...
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Three New Things You Can Learn from Entrepreneurs to Make Ideation Better
Most of the people we know that work in marketing, insights, product development or innovation have participated in more than their fair share of ideation, or brainstorming workshops. Stacks of...
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How to Build a Team Without Spending a Dime
One of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs is that they build effective teams. The most successful entrepreneurs and innovators we know have figured out that teams can take on many...
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10 Foundational Books for Driving Sustained Growth
As a recent HBR blog post reminded us, deep, broad reading habits are often a defining characteristic of our greatest leaders and can catalyze insight, innovation, empathy and personal effectiveness....
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Henry Ford Knew It
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Henry Ford said it well all those years ago. With all the talk these days about new ways of leading in a...
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The Evolution of Functional Leadership
There’s a fundamental shift underway, underwritten by transformative technologies, unprecedented global competition and ever-increasing customer/ consumer expectations. This type of broad-scale change...
View Article5 Innovation Imperatives for the MR Industry & Beyond
Here’s a talk we gave at the Cincinnati AMA Market Research Special Interest Group on The Five Innovation Imperatives for the MR Industry. Ended up being a lot of fun with lots of great discussion....
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10 Ways Leaders Undermine Collaborative Cultures
We’ve been reflecting a lot lately on the things that leaders do that inhibit or limit the benefits that more open forms of collaboration can deliver to an organization. We’ve compiled our list of 10...
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ProductCamp Cincinnati 2014
We’re excited to be part of the planning team for the inaugural ProductCamp Cincinnati 2014 (@pcampcincinnati) because it creates a platform for the collision of ideas and people from a cross-section...
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Creating a Community of Collisions That Leads to Innovation
We were recently inspired by a talk we heard Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh give at an event at Procter & Gamble. He talked about, among lots of other things, the transformation he is passionately driving...
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5 Signs You Need a New Brand Architecture
At the heart of it, Brand Architecture is a strategic, clearly documented organization of the brand’s current and future portfolio of offerings with the intent of driving clear, simple choices for the...
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