Articles on Innovation - People Development Magazine

Innovation in Five Steps or a Thousand Words

The prerequisite for innovation is agency. Creativity is not magic, but there is a trick to it. You can view complex problems as systems...

by Nottingham University Business School April 22, 2022April 23, 2022

Innovation in Five Steps or a Thousand Words

Personal Growth

Fast and Slow Thinking And The Law of Least Effort

Psychologists believe the law of least effort applies to cognitive and physical exertion. In other words, the brain tends to take the most undemanding...

by Nottingham University Business School March 10, 2022May 1, 2022

Fast and Slow Thinking - People Development Magazine

Business and Entrepreneurship

How Your Organisation Can Innovate Better

“Innovation” may be a buzzword today, but for a long time, the concept was decidedly unpopular. Believe it or not, the mere notion of...

by Nottingham University Business School January 25, 2022January 25, 2022

People Development

Learning Creativity through Creative Tension

Setting The Scene Here we set the scene for learning creativity through creative tension. You are walking down a forest path. The tree canopy...

by Jeff Ton December 10, 2021December 10, 2021

People Development

4 Exercises To Encourage Workplace Creativity

Think, bright colours, whiteboards scattered through the office, corporate retreats for team-building. These are just a few of the ways organizations have tried to...

by Scott King October 5, 2021December 10, 2021

Workplace Creativity - People Development Magazine

Business and Entrepreneurship

The Top 10 Animation Tools for Designers

Animation tools for designers Though almost every industry outside of food delivery and hand sanitizer manufacturing has suffered some hits due to COVID-19, most...

by Andrew Deen November 12, 2020February 11, 2021

animation tools for designers - People Development Magazine

Business and Entrepreneurship

Why Being Better Isn’t Always Enough

It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who famously asserted that the world would beat a path to the door of anyone whose products were better...

by Nottingham University Business School January 4, 2020March 21, 2022

Why Being Better Isnt Always Enough - People Development Network

Business and Entrepreneurship

Business Growth, James Bond And The “Nasty Habit” Of Surviving

Business Growth Every entrepreneur with hopes of business growth appreciates that the transition from start-up to burgeoning SME is fraught with difficulty. So is...

by Birmingham Business School November 2, 2019April 1, 2021

Business and Entrepreneurship

How You Think Will Determine The Success of Your Business

Understanding the power of our minds and the way we think is crucial to how to move forward successfully and make the changes we need to transform the way we lead and engage our teams. It is these skills along with true emotional intelligence which will decide our leaders of the future

by Christina Lattimer March 2, 2019October 14, 2020

How You Think Will Determine The Success of Your Business - People Development Network

Leadership

5 Components of a Successful Leadership Formula

Influential leaders use the leadership formula The leadership formula actually involves a number of fairly simple concepts. Yet, despite the simplicity of such concepts...

by Christina Lattimer March 1, 2019November 14, 2020

The Leadership Formula - 5 Steps to Transformation

Business and Entrepreneurship

Effective Marketing Strategies for Start-Ups

For entrepreneurs, business ownership is the best feeling in the world. It’s amazing to build something from the ground up and to share it...

by Andrew Deen February 12, 2019September 19, 2021

Effective Marketing Strategies - People Development Magazine

Business and Entrepreneurship

Does your business have the X Factor?

What is the ingredient which makes your business great? That mysterious elusive quality of “the X Factor” existed before the popular shows. The Oxford...

by Christina Lattimer February 8, 2019September 15, 2021