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    Articles, resources, and tips on innovation to help you apply mehtods that allow new ideas to grow, find inspiration, and get beyond what you've always done.
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    • Systems Thinking Resources: 9 Books, Articles & Videos to Get Started
      Systems Thinking Resources: 9 Books, Articles & Videos to Get Started by IDEO U
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    • How to Think in Systems for Greater Impact

      A person holds a marker while drawing a systems map with many bubbles and lines on a piece of paper.

      Six things to know about human-centered systems thinking, a holistic approach to problem solving that starts with people.

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    • Mentor Moment Podcast Series: Tackling Your Work Challenges

      Logo for IDEO U’s Mentor Moment mini series on the Creative Confidence Podcast.

      Are you struggling with a challenge at work and wish you could get some words of wisdom from someone who’s been there? In our new Creative Confidence Podcast series, Mentor Moment, we call on IDEO professionals to help our IDEO U community.

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    • Play at Work: 7 Ways to Shift Your Mindset and Unlock Innovation

      IDEO’s Michelle Lee and Brendan Boyle

      IDEO’s Michelle Lee and Brendan Boyle share small ways you can experiment with bringing a playful mindset into your work and examples of using play to surface innovative approaches to serious challenges.

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    • How Creative Leaders Play the Long Game for Innovation

      Hernán Carranza stands in front of a long table and kitchen area in the office of La Victoria Lab.Intercorp’s Chief Innovation Officer Hernán Carranza shares how innovation keeps a company moving toward realizing their purpose and ways creative leaders can act now to have long-term impact.

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    • Sal Khan on Leading for Impact and Rethinking Education

      Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy shares on leadership and education

      Khan Academy Founder Sal Khan reflects on the past, present, and future of Khan Academy and shares his vision for the evolution of education. If you hope to have greater impact in the world or you’re working up the courage to take a chance on a business idea, look to Sal’s journey for inspiration.

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    • How to Bring Design Thinking to Your Organization

      Bring Design Thinking to Your Workplace

      Tips from IDEO Founder David Kelley on getting design thinking methods and mindsets to take root at your workplace.

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    • How to Overcome Barriers to Innovation in Your Organization

      Innovation Teams

      It happens to the best of us. You’ve got a great idea and you’re excited to make it happen. But when you introduce this brilliant gem to the organization—wham! Up go the roadblocks. Obstacles to innovation can creep up when you least expect them.

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    • Divergent Thinking and the Innovation Funnel
      Testing to Learn with Brendan Boyle

      We sat down with IDEO Toy Lab Founder Brendan Boyle to talk about getting comfortable with divergent thinking and moving from ideation to real innovations in the marketplace. Here are a few of our favorite highlights...
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    • Creating Company Values Beyond Profit

      Tim Brown Creating Company Values

      When the company purpose focuses on making a meaningful change in the world, it stokes employees’ passion, inspires them, and injects powerful meaning into their work. 

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    • 6 Tips from IDEO Designers on How to Unlock Insightful Conversation

      Design Research Conversations

      Having recently joined IDEO, I was fascinated by the way design researchers can enter any situation, and instantly make people feel at ease. They can interview anyone, from wounded veterans to wedding planners, and encourage them to open up and share their unfiltered opinions. 

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    • Creative Confidence Series: David Kelley on Leading for Creativity
      David Kelley on Leading for Creativity

      We sat down with IDEO Founder & Chairman David Kelley to hear his insights on how to empower employees and instill creative confidence throughout a team or organization.

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