by Carla Johnson | Jan 18, 2023 | Creativity, Innovation
Updated January 17, 2023 The many definitions for innovation If you asked 10 different people to define innovation, you’d get 20 different responses. It’s one of those things that seems simple to define and understand but turns complicated when you’re pressed...
by Carla Johnson | Jan 10, 2023 | Business, Corporate Culture, Innovation, Leadership
January 3, 2023 A century ago, economist Joseph Schumpeter said that crises were seedbeds of innovation and entrepreneurship. History shows that during these times, new technologies are developed and industries remade. These are times when people discover...
by Carla Johnson | Aug 30, 2022 | Innovation
August 30, 2022 An idea needs six components to stick in people’s minds. Chip and Dan Heath’s research, published in their 2007 book Made to Stick, found that an idea has to be: SimpleUnexpectedConcreteCredibleEmotionalA Story Any leader worth their salt knows that...
by Carla Johnson | Jun 28, 2022 | Creativity
June 28, 2022 I had a boss early in my career that almost made me lose my ever-loving mind. Just when we needed to get down to business, he’d meander off on a tangent. I was smart enough to know it wasn’t appropriate to try to wrestle him back to the...
by Carla Johnson | May 17, 2022 | Creativity, Innovation
May 17, 2022 More than 60 years ago, Psychologist J. P. Guilford created the terms convergent and divergent thinking. Convergent refers to your ability to bring things together into a narrow focus or well-defined answer to a problem. This is great when you’re...
