We are nearly two decades into the 21st century and finding meaning in your work (both in and out of the office) has become all but a way of life. Faisal Hoque shares his thoughts on what businesses can do to accommodate this new way of working.
The creativity-spurring benefits of diverse experiences (and diverse individuals) can be realized at both an individual and an organizational level.
Successful businesses manage innovation from concept to commercialization. Here’s how to bring this understanding to your company culture.
“Innovation isn’t just about coming up with the next cool product,” says Hoque, a serial entrepreneur, founder of SHADOKA, and author of the books Everything Connects and Survive to Thrive.
Disruption and leadership might seem opposing forces. Here’s how the best leaders reconcile the two.
The Hard Truths About Seeking Outside Investment.
Serial entrepreneur and noted author Faisal Hoque shows how to create a innovative-based corporate culture that truly meets your customers’ needs.
The implicit — and explicit — expectation is that businesses should “do good” for others, should create something valuable to the world. The question, of course, is how?
A lesson from the life of Leonardo da Vinci about how observing the world around you can lead to creative breakthroughs.
Our treatment of each other as humans is what ultimately brings success. Here are five ideas from our book “Everything Connects – How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability” for connecting with the people to move your initiatives forward.
Whether deliberately designed or not, every organization has an identity, both tangibly — that is, in the design and feel of the products and services it brings into the world — and intangibly — in the way people relate emotionally to the organization.
Successful businesses manage innovation from concept to commercialization. Here’s how to bring this understanding to your company culture.
FORGET TRYING TO BE AN EXPERT, A BEGINNER’S MIND IS WHAT ALLOWS US TO CREATIVELY MOVE OURSELVES FORWARD. BY FAISAL HOQUE | January 9, 2015 What kind of mind do you want? What kind of mind do you want your team to have? If you want to be thought an expert—you may favor having a full mind. After all, it’s rather impressive to know many things, to be a fount of knowledge. But expertise implies a sort of rigidity; if your mind is full, it cannot accept more information or possibilities. This is why we need to maintain what Buddhists refer to as beginner’s mind—a certain playful absence of assumptions. WHAT IS BEGINNER’S MIND? Shunyru Suzuki writes in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, “In the
In an age of unanswerable questions, asking the right question might just be the answer.
The key to solving complex problems may be to simplify as much as possible and approach them with a beginner’s mind.
Along with one of the highly acclaimed must read business books “Everything Connects”; in 2014 Shadoka founder Faisal Hoque also published several dozen articles. These are some of his most trended publications on entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, and leadership of 2014. These publications have been read and shared by thousands of readers globally.
Learn to lead in ways that help rather than tell people to grow and align personal motivations with what your company needs.
Mindfulness helps us see the ways in which our actions aren’t in correlation with ideals we have about ourselves, and in this way it helps us become more aware of our own interior states, which leads to being more empathetic for others and more authentic.
