Sessions

In today’s information-based economy, ideas are an extraordinarily valuable asset, fueling professional growth and driving your organization’s success. What can you do to help your organization become a magnet for great ideas? How can you leverage “the hunt” for great ideas as a source of competitive advantage? Andy Boynton has spent a career working with executives around the world exploring these very questions. He will share the essential skills and tools of idea hunting and demonstrate how ideas drive progress for individual leaders, high-performance teams and winning organizations. He will share stories of great idea hunters, from Henry Ford to Pablo Picasso, and from Thomas Edison to Warren Buffett. This session will detail the four steps necessary to become an effective IDEA hunter:

1. I – Become intensely INTERESTED; become a learning machine.
2. D – DIVERSIFY your idea web; take a different path and learn from weird people.
3. E – EXERCISE your idea muscles daily.
4. A – AGILE, meaning adapt, reuse and test the ideas around you to create new uses.

Boynton also will demonstrate how creating world-class “IDEA HUNTER” capabilities and culture in your organization will lead to high-performance leadership and teamwork, effective change management, new strategy formation and implementation, innovation, creativity and originality, and greater engagement and empowerment.