Growing to the next level (using innovation)Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your ongoing career enhancement process. As well, for allowing me to play the role of creative 'nudge' as you explore ways to tap into your creativity and apply innovation in your day-to-day leadership and business roles.

Is your organization stagnating? Are you finding it a challenge just to keep up with the regular demands made on your team? Are you being stretched financially? How do you keep growing? How do you remain competitive? Growing your people and enhancing their skills will result in growing your organization. Now there is a novel approach to success in business or any viable operation.

Making innovation an integral embedded process may just be the answer. After all, you have a process for almost everything else, don't you? Prepare Yourself to WIN! by investing your time and resources in equipping your team to harness their creativity, to drive innovation, and to grow.

Hands on Innovation (Pocket Wisdom for Innovators) seeks to challenge you to access your creativity, burst your 'locked in' business bubble and start applying 'systematic' innovation in your career and operations. When faced with a challenge or opportunity to grow ask yourself, "What can I.

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":Add? Shrink? Expand? Take away? Adapt? Modify? Substitute? Reverse? Put to another use? Perhaps these types of questions should be asked of every facet of your career path or operation with a focus on continually making improvement. Then take courage, step out, and make any necessary changes.

It is when you see your Ideas At Work that you truly begin the innovation process. Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey.