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Creative Failure Methodology and Becoming An Innovation Evangelist

Phil McKinney
Phil McKinney
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Creative Failure Methodology and Becoming An Innovation Evangelist

Creative Failure Methodology

  • When looking for ideas or creative solutions, we tend to ignore the unexpected — and as a result, we fail to take advantage of the creative opportunity
  • BF Skimner: Whenever you are working on something and found somthing interesting, drop everything else and study it.

Innovation Evangelist

Based on Betsy Weber’s post on being an official company evangalist …

  • Be a power listener
  • Be a “mentoring” teacher
  • Be a people person
  • Get your whole company on-board
  • Get outside your organization
  • Open the front door and create a network
  • Have passion

Closing Thoughts

“Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done”

Vance Packard

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Phil McKinney is an innovator, podcaster, author, and speaker. He is the retired CTO of HP. Phil's book, Beyond The Obvious, shares his expertise and lessons learned on innovation and creativity.


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