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Jeff Havens Innovation Article

The Two Types of Innovation

InnovationBy Jeff HavensJanuary 25, 2016Leave a comment

Greetings, all! I’m writing this from the back of a giraffe. I’m upside down, too, since that makes the blood flow to my head more quickly. Oh, and I’m wearing a toga that I hand-crafted from a World War II parachute. I’m doing this because I’m a maverick who thinks outside the box. Also because…

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Jeff Havens Leadership

Three Reasons Your Current Leadership Training Completely and Totally Sucks

LeadershipBy Jeff HavensJanuary 11, 2016Leave a comment

(And Three Ways To Fix It) I’d like to begin by saying that this article isn’t an attack on you or your current leadership training. It’s an attack on leadership training in general, a $150 billion industry which has almost entirely failed to create the better leaders that it continually promises. Recent Gallup polls have…

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Jeff Havens Innovation

Why People Prefer Innovation to Invention

InnovationBy Jeff HavensJanuary 6, 20161 Comment

So innovation is a big buzzword these days. (Do people still say ‘buzzword’? Is buzzword still a buzzword?) Approximately half of the people I did my TED talk with spoke more or less explicitly about the importance of innovation. By comparison, nobody talked about inventing anything new. And why exactly would that be? Isn’t invention…

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Jeff Havens Corporate Culture

How Your Weirdness Can Build a Vibrant Corporate Culture

Corporate CultureBy Jeff HavensJanuary 6, 2016Leave a comment

So I’ve been living in Texas now for three months, which I think is long enough to really appreciate some of the differences between this vaguely hat-shaped state and the mitten-shaped state from which I came. I got a sunburn in December, for example – not a bad one, just mild enough for me to…

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Jeff Havens Presentation Techniques

Common Strategies for Ruining an Otherwise Excellent Presentation

Public SpeakingBy Jeff HavensDecember 28, 2015Leave a comment

Hi. I deliver presentations for a living, primarily because nobody wants to work with me for a full eight hours every day. Sometimes I get invited to lunch, but that’s about as far as it goes. I’ve tried making friends on the plane to and from my presentations, but those stupid noise-cancelling headphones have made…

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Jeff Havens Leadership Speaker

3 Simple Ways To Turn An Embarrassing Situation To Your Advantage

Conflict ResolutionBy Jeff HavensDecember 21, 2015Leave a comment

So in a nutshell, here’s how every funny person is born:

Jeff Havens TED Talk

5 Things I Learned From Doing a TED Talk

TED TalksBy Jeff HavensDecember 14, 2015Leave a comment

As some of you know, I gave my first TED talk a couple weeks ago. (I wrote it that way on purpose because it implies I’ll do another one someday.) It was a pretty cool experience, primarily because I was surprised by the entire process. After almost a decade of speaking for a living, I…

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Jeff Havens TED Talk

Why Aren’t More of Us Engaged At Work – My TEDx Talk

unleash tvBy Jeff HavensDecember 8, 20152 Comments

I was honored to get the opportunity to speak at TEDxNormal a couple of months ago and Mr. TED recently released the videos.  My segment from this awesome event focused on leadership and how we can improve employee engagement through some not-so-standard practices.  It was a totally different experience for me even though I speak…

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Jeff Havens Perspective Article

Choose Your Year-End Perspective

Personal DevelopmentBy Jeff HavensDecember 2, 2015Leave a comment

Hello, and welcome to the end of another year! You’ve probably unofficially stopped working already, since the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is universally understood to be a time for ‘wrapping things up,’ which is universally understood to mean ‘putting things off for as long as possible.’ This is the perfect time of year to…

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Jeff Havens Keynote Speaker Predictions

12 Wildly Unlikely Predictions for 2016

FunBy Jeff HavensDecember 2, 20154 Comments

OK, so you’re about to start reading a bunch of articles that are going to try to put 2015 into perspective and then make reasonable predictions about what’s going to happen next year. I’m perfectly happy to let others tell you what to expect for the upcoming year. What I want to do is tell…

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