8 Ways To Establish An Innovation Culture In Your Business
Successful businesses manage innovation from concept to commercialization. Here’s how to bring this understanding to your company culture.
Stop Obsessing Over Employee Loyalty And Focus On This Instead
Leadership boils down to arranging circumstances for the people they are caretaking—or curating—so that they may flourish.
THE CASE FOR NOT KNOWING WHAT YOU’RE DOING
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 […]
Why We Fail To Ignite And Sustain Innovation
In an age of unanswerable questions, asking the right question might just be the answer.
Why Simplicity Is So Complex
The key to solving complex problems may be to simplify as much as possible and approach them with a beginner’s mind.
Highlighted Publications of 2014
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.
A Lesson In Overcoming Adversity Through Innovation
A boy from Malawi teaches us how to tackle socio-economic issues with innovation.
How Lego Survived Against All Odds—And You Can, Too
Survival in life or in business has always been about the human journey. Find out how Lego and its founder Ole Kirk Christiansen found the strength to rebuild over and over again with persistence, purpose, and reinvention.
Lessons On Mindfulness With Thought Leader Faisal Hoque
This timely wisdom comes from the heart of an unlikely yet self-proclaimed student of life, Faisal Hoque, who is in the business of innovation and new ventures.
“Everything Connects” Book Review, Entrepreneur ME Magazine
If there is a single line in this book that sums up what the author thinks of leadership, it is this: “Leadership is a way of owning the impact that you and your organization is going to have on the world.” Pick this one up when you want to challenge the champions of the old way of doing things, and perhaps encourage them to think in new ways.
How To Lead Business Innovation For Sustainability
Leading business innovation requires: leading with emotional intelligence, cultivating cross-collaborative organizations, and applying ‘accessible’ technology.
How To Create A Culture of Innovation
An innovative culture begins with accepting that the world really has changed and being open to more changes to come.
How To Lead In A Boundary-Less World
Today’s global, hyper-connected economy is being led by knowledge that it no longer takes complex corporate structures or massive factories to dominate.
The Difference Between Wanting And Having To Work
This distinction is rooted in the balance between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and your company’s culture will dictate how your employees feel about coming to work.
5 Classic Books That Have Inspired Innovative Thinking Throughout Time
“Innovation”, “mindfulness”, and “creativity” are terms we hear a lot these days, but where did they come from? These five books helped shape generations of thinkers, and their lessons still apply today.
Why Are Some People More Creative Than Others?
The short answer is, it’s complicated. But there are some tangible traits that separate a bank teller from an artist.
Here’s How To Keep Your Company From Getting Crushed By The Next Big Thing
Innovation is not a single moment of catharsis, upheaval, or revamping. It is not a change in the form of a one-hit product; instead, it is a continuous process.
How To Map Out Your Decision-Making
Mapping out of your decisions is a way of alleviating hindsight bias and gives you a more granular understanding of how you work.