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Agile Marketing Series: Visualize The New World

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Humans are wired to actualize what lives in the imagination. We have a full catalog of cliches that allude to this phenomenon: Seeing is believing. Visualize world peace. Free your mind and your ass will follow. “In my mind’s eye, Horatio.” In his famous book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond recounts how our human…

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Time Management Month: Top 10 Office Time Wasters [INFOGRAPHIC]

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According to OfficeTime.net, February is recognized as Time Management Month. In honor of saving our seconds, the site released its annual Top Ten Time Killers list (infographic style), as well as some tips on how to combat them. It should come as no real shocker that e-mail is listed as the number one culprit here–several…

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5 Ways Companies Fail at Innovation

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Innovation is a hot topic in business these days — between uproar from industry influencers claiming it’s dead and speculation that the nature of the word itself is changing, squeezing out the Next Big Idea is at the top of many a company checklist. Organizations are striving to stay ahead of industry changes while keeping…

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Innovation Assassins: When CEOs Attack

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It’s arguable that, by the time a person hits CEO status, their job is no longer to innovate, but motivate. As we’ve mentioned before, a common consequence of expanded leadership is an increased feeling of discord between a person’s positional influence and the tangible work being done by the company. The result can be damaging,…

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Finding Your Creative Boiling Point: How Pressure Can Inspire Innovative Thinking

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Thanks to the Internet and all of its digitally-equipped friends (we’re looking at you, iPad), expectations surrounding content creation and response time are no longer a game of cat and mouse. There is no languid turnaround time allotted for research and release, and creators know that you can only use the “lost in the ether”…

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The Innovation Plateau: Redefining Progress

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Today’s mobile devices have come to define a generation that began the 21st century with a unique gadget for everything, and ten years in, presented a single gadget that can do anything. Despite our obvious evolution in many industries, we’re seeing development plateau in a way that has some noteworthy entrepreneurs worried that innovation is…

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Mobility: It’s About Behavior, Not Devices

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To say mobility is huge–gargantuan, even–would be an understatement. Around this time last year it was predicted the number of mobile devices on the planet would exceed the world’s population by the end of 2012, inspiring many an enterprise to review and freshen up their mobile strategies. But here at the start of 2013 our…

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