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What are Your Innovation Values?

Posted by on 28 October 2015
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Back End of Innovation
Keynote Exercise
A BEI 2015 talk given by David Matheson, SmartOrg
Work It! What are
Your Innovation Values?
Matheson opens up by making fun of company mission
statements and empty value statements. Then, he turns to the crowd and asks them,
'What really matters'?
Then, we did a heart listening exercise. In this exercise,
we worked with a partner to draw out what really motivated them'to the point
where they became speechless.
At this wordless point of wonder there lies the core motivation.
The tool was one of the most reliable, one of the oldest: conversation.
After the results were shared, many innovators awoke to a
renewed sense of calling and a fresh perspective on what was really driving
them.

Michael Graber is the
managing partner of the Southern Growth Studio, an innovation and strategic
growth firm based in Memphis, TN. Visit
www.southerngrowthstudio.com to learn more.
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