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A6: New is the new new. A relentless look at the existing with an intent to change and improve is essential for reimagination.

Be open to new ideas, silly ideas, bad ideas, great ideas, all ideas...

A6: Also, being fearless: When you ask for input, you shall receive it, and you won’t always like it. But don’t be scared – it will be worth it.

A6: @IBMSocialBiz Empower everybody within the organisation to continually ask the question why. To reimagine you can't assume you have to understand and to understand you have to ask why.

@LindsaySkarda that is very true

Encourage and foster "ownership" throughout the organization, while giving all employees the best tools to participate, contribute, and ultimately, innovate.

Welcome change with a good attitude!

Ban large team update meetings and hold story telling coffeehouses instead.

A6: encourage risk-taking, treat failure as part of learning and growing

Less meetings and more problem/solution brainstorms. Time for collaboration and dreaming is key to growth. We all get too caught up in surviving each day instead of finding ways to make each day better.

I call it a "culture of participation" - it's about both the benefits to the company (innovation, speed, growth, efficiency) and also to the individual (career, personal satisfaction, job flow)

high profile endorsement from senior execs. Hiring (and firing) to reinforce the desired behaviour

Raise the bar with each success and accomplishment. Continuously challenge the processes and the thinking.

@mirgray I always loved meeting my teammates in new places! Nothing sparks new ideas like a new environment.

Tell stories about risk taking including failures that were worth it.

Most of the time we do not have the best idea . But still say it! Embrace that, learn from it, and figure out which shy person in the room has the best idea. It might be you this time.

A6: Companies can foster a culture by enabling creativity, innovation, and learning in an nurturing environment.

A6: @IBMSocialBiz - People have got to be jazzed about it and teamed with like-minded folks to foster a culture of reimagination to grow and succeed!!

A6: Embrace uncertainty and encourage curiosity.

@AmandaTene i love time for dreaming. imagine that.

A6: respond to all submitted ideas; saying 'thanks' or even 'no' is better than silence #respect

Give ppl choices on when, where and how they work. Provide the necessary tools to be successful. Then step aside and give them freedom to nurture their creative capabilities.

@sean_house Maybe more local level of calling out great story telling?

Accept failures....trial and error sparks great ideas!

@pulvereyes Great idea! Reminds me of @KareAnderson when she said employees want to make a difference, not just be heard.

@CaseyCrl Sometimes if I wonder if we'd get farther if all the jazzed people worked together rather than scattered throughout.

@mirgray Absolutely! Stories celebrating failure (or the learning from it) as well as success

Q6: Encouraging #Meritocracy Instead of Building #Bureaucracy

A7: @IBMSocialBiz Honesty is the most admirable quality of a visionary. Without it a vision is just a dream. With it a vision can become a reality.

A7: Conviction. It takes a lot of guts to challenge the world, and a strong belief to change it.

One who can clearly articulate their vision and inspire their team to embrace that vision and, in their own unique way, execute against it.

Imagination! @LisaSeacat definitely inspired me to run with mine!

A7. Ability to share the vision and leave me with stories to share on.

A7: risk-taking. not easy to go against the grain and be the 'wild duck' with bold, novel ideas

A7: And yet, staying humble. Despite all the strength is takes to develop a vision, staying open to alternative thoughts and opinions.

Honesty and transparency.

A7. man all of these are essential for visionaries.

A7: Clear communication. Vision doesn't matter if it is kept quiet!

A7: @nickblunden & @britta_sf - Could not have answered Q7 any better than ya'll did!! Way to go!! @IBMSocialBiz

Insight: a visionary to me is that person who says "Yeah, but what if?!"... And then motivates people to follow through. #TEDatIBM

Bravery.....the ability to take risks, try new things.

Transparent honesty with realistic optimism!

@pulvereyes I agree! Then bravery or courage or even determination to be heard would be a quality that's needed.

A7: The abilitity to think and create outside of the box. #noboundaries

@Britta_SF Well said.

@edbrill - agree! Ability to make a complex idea seem simple

@RichardBranson is mine. He has been a some I look up to since 14 years old (his book was the first book I read end-to-end and enjoyed.) A lot of my key skills and qualities are from him.

A7 Great Teeth! Kidding...Willingness to learn from mistakes

erudition: the ability to make the vision compelling and to communicate it

@Britta_SF Agree!

think big, get **** done, fun to work with

Envision for the Future

Coming up with an idea that can be implemented to the largest group of people - and that applies to all of them.

@Britta_SF So true - one must be fully determined on their mission to succeed - as if they live and breath it day & night

@PattyDesmarais and simultaneously to sell other on a vision outside THEIR box :) !

Their fire. Their intense focus, passion, dedication and drive balanced with mindfulness.

determination and courage to dedicate their lives and hard work to a belief, vision doesn't come suddenly, it arrives while working hard...

@atharafzal Agreed :-)

A7: Magnetism