Your Strategic Plan Needs to See the Future…but How?
Welcome to the present moment, where today is yesterday’s tomorrow. Is the day going exactly the way expected it to go when the day...
Transformational Leadership
In a world where disruption can happen in any industry at any time, the value of transformational leadership is increasing rapidly....
Seek Out the Square Pegs
Do you REALLY want people thinking "outside the box" in your organization? If so, what are you doing to find, support, and retain people...
Are You Focusing on the Wrong Side of the Innovation Equation?
Want more innovative ideas? Focus more attention on the problem, rather than on the solution. This article contains many good examples of...
Louis CK On Innovation
Louis CK on Innovation? Well, yes, in a sense... This hilarious rant perfectly captures the dynamics of the Kano Model and the challenge...
Speed is NOT a Strategy
Robert C. Wolcott gets it right in his article on strategic planning and execution, "Speed is Not a Strategy." Some quotes that are...
Life or Death Leadership
For organizations, operational excellence is necessary for survival. Innovation is necessary for really living. I was struck by that...
The expanding role of design in creating an end-to-end customer experience
This article from McKinsey (http://bit.ly/2qWLuvk) gets one of it's early assertions wrong: "Products, services, and environments—both...
Innovation Lessons from a Martial Arts Seminar?
Innovation is like a street fight. Or at least that’s the thought that popped into my head at one point during a recent self-defense...
Innovation Requires Ant-Colony Management
The problem of managing innovation (and innovators) is one of the most challenging aspects of running an organization well....
