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#MotivationMonday
“The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.”
— W. Arthur Porter
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What It Takes to Hit the Million-Dollar Mark: An Interview with Lauren King
What does it take to surpass the US$1 million threshold in business? Is it luck, hard work, networking or something less obvious? Lauren King, EO Accelerator Program Director, spoke with us and shared how the program is fueling entrepreneurial innovation and growth globally:
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Three Tips from Young Innovators: EO GSEA Competitors!
Innovation can be loosely defined as the process of creating a new idea, product or service. The future of entrepreneurship relies on the young entrepreneurs of today.
Aneil Mishra was asked to judge EO’s 2015 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) Global Finals. Mishra states, “I was blown away by the quality and creativity of these students.”
Click here to find out three lessons he learned from these young entrepreneurs!
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Why Defining Your Core Pillars Can Lead to Innovation
By Jason Teshuba, an EO Detroit member and co-founder and CEO of Mango Languages
Visionary companies that are built to last are guided by core values. My co-founders and I built Mango Languages with six pillars as our foundation because they stand for beliefs innate to each one of us:
- Integrity: Act in alignment with the greater good.
- Positive Attitude: Take personal responsibility to create a healthy environment.
- Entrepreneurial Spirit: Take risks and work hard to bring a worthy vision to life.
- Innovation: Think creatively to change the world.
- Quality: Strive for excellence and 改善 (pronounced kaizen, meaning “improvement” and connotes continuous, never-ending improvement in Japanese). 6. Fundipline: Enjoy the journey to greatness.
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Turn Your Innovations into Realities
Innovation is easy to talk about, but often difficult to implement. Check out this excerpt from Jeffrey Fox and Robert Reiss’ book, The Transformative CEO; Impact Lessons from Industry Game Changers, which features quick steps for innovation and the CEO of Griffin Health Services, Patrick Charmel, sharing how he transformed the health care industry by putting these steps into action. ©2012, McGraw-Hill Professional; reprinted with permission of the publisher.
Managers know they must innovate. They know they must change, adapt, differentiate, take some risk. Yet some managements are so tethered to their past, to their silos to the way it was, that they can’t, won’t, or don’t know how to innovate. Here are some public secrets on how to innovate:
- Innovation starts at the top. If the leader talks innovation, gives lots of examples, rewards attempts, lionizes successes, the organization gets the message. There is more untapped innovation in most companies than there are mussels on the Santa Monica pier.
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De-Cloaking Innovation
By Chris Grivas, special to Overdrive
The “mystery” of innovation often seems like a cloud-covered grail always just out of reach of people looking to make their business stand out. We look at great innovations like the iPhone, Twitter or microwave oven, and wonder how we can do that.
We search for that breakthrough idea as if it were a lottery ticket; all we have to do is pick the numbers and we are set for life. The thing is that the odds of finding that idea though just sitting down and generating ideas with your team are about the same as winning the lottery. Generating ideas does not equal innovation … it’s only one step to getting there. The key to deliberate creativity is to understand and apply the whole process and not be bogged down or enamored by just one part of it.
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Top Entrepreneurial News of the Day
- Selling Your Company When You’re Running on Fumes – Inc.com: Andrew Warner of Mixergy.com sold an Internet start-up after burning out in his 20s. Here’s what he learned from the experience.
- Four Ways to Improve Customer Service – Entrepreneur.com: Follow these top tips to give customers exactly what they want.
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Top Entrepreneurial News of the Day
- Why Tim Ferriss Sold His Muse – Inc.com: The author of The 4-Hour Workweek talks about selling his business, BrainQUICKEN, despite it taking up little of his time and paying for his lifestyle.
- When Innovation is the Enemy – Forbes.com: Three reasons why it pays to stick to what you know–especially in a tough economy.
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