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Critical Thinking and Innovation – The New High Ranking Skills at the Workplace
March 29, 2013 by William FriersonWhen searching for your next job, consider that a potential employer may be looking for a candidate skilled in critical thinking and innovation. Learn more in the following post.
“For CEOs today, it’s all about achieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It’s not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.” ~ Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO You might attribute critical thinking and innovation as a strong skill set for leaders
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Critical Thinking and Innovation – The New High Ranking Skills at the Workplace
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Schools That Can
December 20, 2012 by William Frierson
In the following post, Jim Shelton, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education, shares his experiences visiting schools around the country who are striving for excellence.For each of the last three years, Secretary Duncan has started the school year with a bus tour visiting schools and communities across the country to find what’s working in education and to hear the concerns, insights, and lessons learned from students, teachers, principals, parents, and the communities supporting them. It’s always a welcome grounding in “real education” — the kind that children and families experience everyday — versus the “education system” policymakers and pundits love to caricature and debate.
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Driving Productivity in Postsecondary Education Through Innovation
by William FriersonThe following post summarizes a meeting of multiple groups discussing the need to include innovation in higher education.The Department of Education (ED) seeks to encourage innovation in higher education teaching and learning to drive productivity, quality, and equity. To contribute to the national conversation in this arena, ED, in collaboration with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, convened 175 people at Georgetown University
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Strengthening the American Workforce through Innovation
December 07, 2012 by William FriersonThe following post explains a new initiative for career development to create a better prepared workforce in the U.S. for employment opportunities.St. Petersburg (Fla.) College engineering and technology student Tungo Harris has a plan: “I want to get gainfully employed — and I figure I will be after this — with a decent salary,” Harris told the Tampa Bay Times. Thanks to a new $15 million grant announced last month by U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis at St. Petersburg, Harris, a Navy veteran who is recovering from a brain tumor, can now get help in fulfilling his plan.
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Unlocking Human Potential: The Cost of Conflating Potential and Performance
by William FriersonThere is no question that anyone, who wants to and has the ability to, can learn. However, according to the following post, how much we learn may depend upon how far we are willing to go.I recently gave a TEDx MidAtlantic talk entitled Unlocking Human Potential: Why We Need a New Infrastructure for Learning about Learning. My premise was that we have the opportunity to tap into vast amounts of latent human potential; but, to do so quickly, we need to build a new national research agenda and apparatus focused on breakthrough learning outcomes.
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Unlocking Human Potential: The Cost of Conflating Potential and Performance
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49% of Recruiters Say Managers With Innovation Skills In High Demand
July 23, 2012 by Steven Rothberg
Forty-nine percent of the executive recruiters surveyed by ExecuNet revealed that executive and other managers with proven innovation skills were hard to find, compared to other skills, and 31 percent said companies were willing to pay a premium for innovative talent – even in today’s job market.“With product lifecycles declining rapidly, increased global competition and pressure from changing customer needs, executives who have demonstrated they can challenge business assumptions and find the areas of opportunities in current business models are in demand,” says Mark Anderson, President of ExecuNet. “We counsel executives everyday that they have to do more than claim they were ‘innovative’ on their résumés. They need to show a quantifiable history of innovating and its impact on their previous organizations,” adds Anderson.
To negotiate top pay for top innovation skills, executive recruiters revealed that 32 percent of hiring managers “want concrete examples of innovation by the candidate in previous positions.” Continue Reading
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Obstacles to Company Innovation
April 20, 2012 by William FriersonEmployers, are you wondering what is keeping your company from producing the next big thing? Here is your chance to find out.
The biggest roadblocks to organizational breakthroughs are a shortage of fresh thinking and too much red tape, according to executives interviewed for a recent Robert Half survey. More than one-third (35 percent) of chief financial officers (CFOs) said a lack of new ideas is the greatest barrier to their company being more innovative. Approximately one-quarter (24 percent) of respondents cited excessive bureaucracy as the top creativity killer, while 20 percent blamed being bogged down with daily tasks or putting out fires. Continue Reading
