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Without this approach, groupthink, overly vocal members or real or perceived hierarchy will suppress (production block) the most promising out of the box ideas.
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Finally, we continued our back-to-school coverage by rounding up the top six kids backpacks of the year and we put together a week-long menu of bento box ideas.
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Really, I feel so fortunate to have been able to do those two shows on CBS because they came during a time when CBS was open to those kinds of out of the box ideas.
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Note to other ARPA-E attendees: please let me know if you hear of outside-the-box energy ideas, or mention them in the comments.
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Within that range, though, the Wii U magically streams hiccup-free gaming to both the GamePad's screen and an HDTV -- no small feat, and one that opens up a Pandora's box of ideas for both game developers and media providers.
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As a recent college grad, I often find myself coming up with off-the-wall, out-of-the-box, borderline idiotic ideas of what to do with the rest of my life.
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On the other hand, it is similarly important to not shy away from business ideas that are slightly out of the box compared with your previous products.
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Throw away the suggestion box and openly discuss new ideas.
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Each box where the two lists overlap is a place to brainstorm ideas.
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Nearly every element of large, hierarchical corporations discourages innovation, from mid-level executives unwilling to upset the corporate groupthink with new ideas, to senior executives afraid to embrace out-of-the-box thinking.
FORBES: Innovation Is for the Young - Or Is It?
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The aim was "to provide a perspective on business and career development that lies totally outside the established MBA curriculum, confronting prejudices about creativity and providing innovative methodologies developed to channel creativity to 'stretch the walls of the elastic-sided box', that can be successfully applied to any industry, to generate momentous ideas, " according to Kevin Roberts, Saatchi and Saatchi's worldwide CEO.
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