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The Necessity of Strangers: Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation and Success

November 6, 2013 by Alan Gregerman 2 comments 1375 viewson Communication & Alignment, Innovation, Leadership
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The Necessity of Strangers: Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation and SuccessDr. Alan Gregerman is an award-winning author, business consultant, teacher and speaker. His work focuses on helping companies and organizations to unlock the genius in all of their people in order to deliver the most compelling value to their customers. He’s worked with Fortune 500 corporations, growing firms, entrepreneurial start-ups, nonprofit organizations and government agencies.

Highlights:

•          How curiosity, field trips, and strangers can help your business grow

•          The best ways for innovation and to stand out from the crowd

•          The danger of becoming a victim of your own expertise

•          How outside ideas can help solve important problems

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About the author:

Dr. Alan Gregerman is a highly-respected and award-winning author, business consultant, teacher, keynote speaker, and all-around nice guy who has been called “one of the most original thinkers in business today” and “the Robin Williams of business consulting.”  His work focuses on helping companies and organizations to unlock the genius in all of their people in order to deliver the most compelling value to their customers.

Alan’s first two books—“Surrounded by Geniuses” and “Lessons from the Sandbox”—challenge our thinking about people, the world around us, and where brilliant ideas actually come from.  He is currently writing a new book about the importance of strangers in our success as individuals and organizations.

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2 comments

  1. Executive Coaching

    November 11, 2013 at 7:05 am

    “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger.
    http://www.mile.org/

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  2. sam statton

    November 12, 2013 at 6:48 am

    A great reminder of what we already know.
    Getting organizations to listen to this advice is the most difficult of tasks.
    As a consultant (Branding), I love to engage others.
    And as a consultant, its’ easier to pass on this kind of information.
    I then conclude the audience that needs to hear this the most, and can implement it the most often, is not the “organizational” audience. It’s those that come from the outside that can possibly make a difference.
    I really enjoyed this short, to the point, piece(s) of advice.

    Reply

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