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Brainstorming or Debate? How About Both?
Brainstorming, as it’s known today, was born in the late 1940s when a highly successful advertising executive, Alex Osborn (think Mad Men) wrote a book (Your Creative Power) to let the world in on his “creative secrets.”
An Argument for “Deliberative Discourse” Over Brainstorming
When a team finds itself at a crossroads on a project, or maybe on the cusp of tackling a formidable one, it’s not uncommon for someone to suggest a little chaos to find some creative direction: “Let’s brainstorm.”
Team Building and Performance: A New Science
Everyone has a story. Whether your bad team experience was in business school or in the workplace, hopefully you’ve been able to draw two things from it: insight on team dynamics (to apply in other collaborations), and a story to tell colleagues during happy hour.
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Connectivate! GAIKAI Online Game Ecosystem [Innovation Excellence]
Organizations still have a long way to go to fully integrate the social web to connect to their customers. Here are some great examples, curated by Professor of Innovation, Hitendra Patel and the C Tenter for Innovation, Excellence and Leadership (IXL Center). Their book Connectivate! is a collection of real world stories from 54 innovative companies whose breakthroughs are changing the world.
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Solving Team-Related Challenges in Business School
One consistent theme that keeps coming up in our research into what employers want from business school graduates is that people need to be able to work in teams in a productive way. This should come as no surprise given the increasingly networked and interdependent world in which we live.
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It’s facial fuzz and fashion in the name of Movember at Hult
As men everywhere proudly grew mustaches last month in honor of the Movember movement, Hult San Francisco students joined in the charitable - and not always pretty - fun.