Innovation Excellence | Top 20 Innovation Articles

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At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our FREE Innovation Excellence Weekly magazine (PDF for printing or downloading to iPad, Kindle, Nook, etc.) and email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut?

But enough delay, here are December’s twenty most popular innovation posts (each receiving 3,200 – 7,000 page views):

The Best Strategic Thinkers – 5 Sure Characteristics – by Mike Brown

Who is Your Innovation Czar? – by Rowan Gibson

Rejection Breeds Creativity – by Drew Boyd

Eight Things Not to Say When You Hear a New Idea – by Paul Sloane

Lego Minecraft: A Lesson in Crowdsourcing – by Yann Cramer

5 Signs You’re Not As Smart As You Think – by Mike Myatt

Innovation – Activity, Tool or Competence? – by Jeffrey Phillips

Why Corporate Culture is Important for Innovation – by Jeffrey Phillips

The Next Generation of Business Innovation – PRESENTATION

The New 6Ps of Radical Innovation for Large Companies – #6 PEOPLE – by Kevin McFarthing

Innovation Themes from Architect Daniel Libeskind – by Scott Bowden

Idea Stormers – by Peter Cook

What is the Missing Cost of Not Innovating? – by Paul Hobcraft

The Difference between Innovation and Invention – the 3rd Age of Mobile – by Randy Giusto

Innovation is Action. So Get Up, Get Out, and just go be an Entrepreneur. – by Dean DeBiase

6 Innovation Roadblocks Worth Breaking Through – by Greg Verdino

How to be an Effective Innovator? – by Gijs van Wulfen

The Leaderless Organization – by Greg Satell

Irrelevancy Leads to Failure – Worry for Yahoo, Microsoft, HP, Sears, etc. – by Adam Hartung

Brainstorming versus Braincalming – by Mitch Ditkoff

BONUS – Here are four more strong articles published the last week of the month:

The Pope Tweets, so why not CEOs? – by Kevin Maney

Disrupt Yourself – Our Interview with Whitney Johnson – by Julie Anixter

Leadership is About Leading – by Mike Myatt

Stretching the Concept of Open Innovation – by Stefan Lindegaard

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Braden Kelley is a popular innovation speaker, embeds innovation across the organization with innovation training, and builds B2B pull marketing strategies that drive increased revenue, visibility and inbound sales leads. He is currently advising an early-stage fashion startup making jewelry for your hair and is the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons. He tweets from @innovate.

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