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Now is the time to rethink long-held strategic assumptions inside your company, to challenge decades of conventional wisdom in your industry, and to push yourself to learn, grow, and innovate. ... Here, then, are ten questions that leaders must ask of themselves and their organizations — questions that speak to the challenges of change at a moment when change is the name of the game. The leaders with the best answers win.

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Economic downturns are as much about psychology as about GNP, as much about withering confidence as about shrinking employment. As individual leaders, we have no control over whether banks will lend or consumers will spend. But we do control our own mindsets and "animal spirits" -- the memorable phrase coined by an even more influential economist, John Maynard Keynes, in the depths of the Great Depression.

Here's Keynes: "A large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than mathematical expectations, whether moral or hedonistic or economic. Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive. . .can only be taken as the result of animal spirits -- a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities."

Translation: If all you've got is a spreadsheet filled with red ink and grim forecasts, it's easy to be paralyzed by fear. But if you've got some leadership nerve, if you can summon those "animal spirits" of which Keynes writes, then hard times can be a great time to separate yourself from the pack and build advantages for years to come.

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Matthew May, author of Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking The Toyota Way offers 10 practices that can drive the innovation necessary to discover elegant solutions. These 10 practices should be embedded into the work of schools, districts, leadership teams, professional learning communities, or professional networked learning collaboratives.

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The mantra should be, “No best, only better.” To innovate is to TRY to make things better than ever.

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HR World links to the sites of others in a variety of areas of leadership, management, organzations, business.

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In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can't. He describes the rising role

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Annual events "letting great people tell great stories" on innovation, thinking that pushes the boundaries. Lots of video-clips to be explored!

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Swarm Intelligence; human decision-making in a complex, decentralized and unpredictable world; Santa Fe Institute, mentored by Murray Gell-Mann... a video of talk by Bonabeau. Love his dry humor style!

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