Every morning part of my routine is to check my BlackBerry for the day’s RSS feeds. (Yes, before I get out of bed. I’m not a morning person so this helps me ease into the world hours before I’d prefer.) And if a post appears from Saul Kaplan it never stays unread for long. This […]
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From the Management Exchange site: “In May 2008, thirty-five management scholars and practitioners came together to begin the work of defining an agenda for management innovation in the 21st century. This “renegade brigade” included veteran management experts like Peter Senge, C.K. Prahalad, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Yves Doz, and Tom Malone, new-age management thinkers like James Surowiecki […]
An eye-opening unintended consequence of attending a Design Conference earlier this year was learning about the negative impact design has had on our environment. Compounded significantly by reading Do Good Design by David Berman and by watching Food Inc I’ve made some changes, like my grocery shopping habits. The ah-ha of why we as consumers […]
Serendipity and I met up recently at this blog post. I happened to read it while on my way to the second morning of a two day strategy and innovation session, where we were about to reveal the company’s trade-off. I loved the post’s example of Intelligentsia Coffee in Los Angeles, where founder Doug Zell’s […]
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Creating Brains on Fire Movements
Think about the last time someone tried to change something significant inside your organization. How did the employees access that message? Odds are pretty good that it involved email, PowerPoint, or possibly a corporate bulletin. If your company is more progressive maybe a blog or Yammer post was involved too. When I read this review […]
What is the secret of success? Right decision. How do you make right decision? Experience. How do you get experience? Wrong decision. For me, this summed up developing as a manager and leader in one image. And yet systems are always looking for the quick fix: train them! Pour the information into their head (preferably in as […]