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Innovation hot spots (Gratton)

This tool will help you:

  • Understand the importance of creating ‘hot spots’ in your organisation
  • Learn the four main ways of nurturing them – collegiality, inter-departmental collaboration, vision and communication/teamwork
  • Ignite your firm

About this tool

Does your organisation have a creative buzz? Should it?

Do your competitors have the buzz? Shouldn’t you?

As Linda Gratton asks in her 2007 book, Innovation Hot Spots: Why Some Companies Buzz with Energy and Innovation… and Others Don’t, why do some companies buzz with energy, innovation and creativity? Why do these flares of activity occur in some companies and teams and not in others? How can you avoid the Big Freeze and instead encourage the creation ...

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