Generating ideas: Some strategies

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The survival of all organizations is based on the ideas they implement, whether their mission is to invent a new innovative product or solve a perplexing problem. The seven ways that include invite everyone in the quest for ideas, involve customers in the process, involve customers in new ways and focus on the unarticulated needs of customers, in which the organizations are reinventing their idea factories are narrated by a leading innovation futurist.

Evaluation, Consumer preferences, Creative ability, Creativity

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Confessions of a paper-giving virgin

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A doctoral candidate at George Mason University, Virginia, describes her experience of delivering her first paper at a conference, at the Graduate Student Caucus at the Modern Language Association conference on 29 December 2004. The event is described as a success and as a turning point in her professional life.

Public Speaking, Personal narratives, Education conferences

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'Absolute secrecy corrupts absolutely'

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The culture of fear during the Cold War and the current War on Terror is due to the cult of secrecy which exists as a tension between that which secrecy constrains and that which it allows. Frederick Hitz, former CIA Inspector General, wrote in his book The Great Game that 'Absolute secrecy corrupts absolutely'.

Influence, Political aspects, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Public officers, Government officials, Official secrets

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