Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Tony Vengrove on The Passage to Profit Show
Miles Finch Innovation Founder & CEO, Tony Vengrove, was recently the featured speaker on The Passage to Profit Show, which aired on Sunday, March 31st on New York’s WOR710 radio. During the interview, Tony spoke about his Makery Coworking project in New Milford, Connecticut–describing what the coworking experience is like in a rural market and…
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Buyer Beware
By Tony Vengrove The CEOs said, “We must innovate or die,” but they didn’t know how to do it. So they brought in consultants to teach them how. The consultants sold them a process. The CEOs said, “The process is only kicking out average-at-best, incremental innovation.” “That’s because there’s not enough creativity,” the Consultants said.…
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Breaking the Addiction to Logic
By Tony Vengrove As companies pursue the holy grail of innovation they are essentially contracting to become more creative. However, most senior leaders lack experience with building or managing creative cultures—or employees, for that matter. In fact, most organizations are highly adept at implementing business processes and using logic to analyze business decisions. This leads…
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You’ve Proclaimed Creativity a Company Value, Now What?
By Tony Vengrove This post is adapted from an article originally published on Values Based Leader. “We have to innovate or die!” It seems every Chief Executive Officer has trumpeted a version of that tune in the last decade. It’s easy to stand before employees and confidently declare a commitment to innovate, until you realize…
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