Who is Braden Kelley?
I am an innovation speaker, content marketing geek, innovation trainer, and recognized thought leader.
And also co-founded the world's most popular innovation web site:
"I help organizations use social media and other tools to attract and engage customers, partners, and employees to help the organization achieve its goals.
If you're looking to create a culture of innovation, tackle some of your innovation barriers, train your employees to be more innovative, or build a more profitable, more social business -- let's talk."
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Category Archives: Management
Interview with Retired President X
I had lunch in 2009 with the recently-retired president of a multi-billion dollar company and had a great conversation about innovation, leadership, and culture. The insights are still relevant and he enjoys his private life so I won’t be naming … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Leadership, Management
Tagged CEO, Employees, ideas, Interviews, motivation, president
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The Nine Innovation Roles
I’m seeing an increasing number of articles about innovation personalities and the like, and I’m a firm believer that it’s not personalities that matter so much when it comes to innovation, it’s the roles that we play in making innovation … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Psychology, Strategy
Tagged Nine Innovation Roles, roles, success, team dynamics, teams
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Personal Innovation – Shine Your Star
I had a nice conversation with a friend from London today that I haven’t spoken with in a while and we got onto the topic of careers. We started talking about my article on Personal Innovation and how in most … Continue reading
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Tagged careers, HR, jobs, lawyers, money, professional athletes, salaries, stars
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Are you the 10th person who innovates?
“For every nine people who denounce innovation, only one will encourage it… For every nine people who do things the way they have always been done, only one will ever wonder if there is a better way. For every nine … Continue reading
Rise and Fall of Innovation at Yahoo!
Can people really innovate when they have to tend to all of their day-to-day responsibilities? Unfortunately, people don’t get promoted for being innovative, they get promoted for getting stuff done, developing people, and meeting or exceeding goals or stretch targets. … Continue reading
Innovate Thyself (aka Personal Innovation)
Many people have written previously about how difficult it is to innovate within an established organization. Trying to transform oneself can be just as incredibly difficult. I wouldn’t call it a re-invention, per se, because of the distinction I draw … Continue reading
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Business Strategy Innovation Diamond (BSID)
Continuing my quest to surface some classics that the Innovation Excellence audience will have never seen, here is another from 2007: I would like to introduce a visual metaphor that the consultants use at Business Strategy Innovation. It’s called, predictably … Continue reading
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Innovation Passing Lane Ahead
I noticed an interesting phenomenon the other day on a 200 mile drive back from the Oregon coast to Seattle that I would like to share with you and then discuss the potential implications for innovation success. Now let me … Continue reading
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Think ‘Out of Four Walls’
I had coffee with a clever marketing and sales consultant recently and one of the topics we discussed was the impact of location on a group’s ability to innovate. At the time we spoke about getting people to think in … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Creativity, Innovation, Management, Psychology
Tagged ideas, meetings, off-site, offsite
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Unlocking the Inner Child for Innovation
In the quest to unlock innovation in organizations, it may be beneficial or even mandatory to learn how to unlock the internal children in our employees. I’m sure we can all remember as children being told “don’t” do this or … Continue reading
