If your organization gets a reputation as a sweatshop it can be hard to recruit new staff – especially millennials and returning mothers who want a good work/life balance.
Ambitious Leaders Set Ambitious Goals
Assemble a great team and let them get on with it.
Assemble a great team and let them get on with it.
Transformers – A Brainstorm Technique for Systems or Processes
It is important to use the verbs in very intense ways in order to disturb and stimulate the process.
It is important to use the verbs in very intense ways in order to disturb and stimulate the process.
Message to the Board – We Need to Talk About Innovation
Once the top level innovation strategy is agreed then progress should be regularly monitored at future meetings.
Once the top level innovation strategy is agreed then progress should be regularly monitored at future meetings.
The Rise and Rise of Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
Nowadays most CEOs see collaboration as key to their success with innovation. They know they cannot achieve their innovation targets using internal resources alone.
Nowadays most CEOs see collaboration as key to their success with innovation. They know they cannot achieve their innovation targets using internal resources alone.
Deliberately Take a Different Point of View
The great innovators did not take the traditional view and develop existing ideas. They took an entirely different view and transformed society.
The great innovators did not take the traditional view and develop existing ideas. They took an entirely different view and transformed society.
Think Like Charles Darwin
Often an innovator will rush to market with his or her new idea but sometimes the world is not yet ready.
Often an innovator will rush to market with his or her new idea but sometimes the world is not yet ready.
Try This Phrase To Speed Action; Unless I Hear Differently
One of the big problems with making innovation happen is the number of meetings and approvals that are needed before we can move forward with anything radical or different.
One of the big problems with making innovation happen is the number of meetings and approvals that are needed before we can move forward with anything radical or different.
Try Coming at the Problem From a Different Direction; Think Laterally
Lateral thinking involves coming at the problem from new directions – literally from the side.
Lateral thinking involves coming at the problem from new directions – literally from the side.
A Great Way to Give Feedback – Two Stars and a Wish
The positive feedback acts like sugar on the pill of the criticism and makes it much easier to swallow.
The positive feedback acts like sugar on the pill of the criticism and makes it much easier to swallow.
Look for the Solution Inside the Problem
One of the methods taught in Systematic Inventive Thinking is to break the problem down into a chain of unwanted effects.
One of the methods taught in Systematic Inventive Thinking is to break the problem down into a chain of unwanted effects.
The Double-Handed Approach to Innovation
Add something different and take away something of little value.
Add something different and take away something of little value.
The Cook’s Badge
Stay calm. Savour the moment. Relish the victory.
Stay calm. Savour the moment. Relish the victory.
How Leading Retailers Innovate
When consumer spending falls, retail becomes a desperately competitive business.
When consumer spending falls, retail becomes a desperately competitive business.
A Minor Innovation in One Field Can Become a Major Innovation in Another e.g. Siping
Incidentally the reason the Sipes work is not because they carry water away; they make the sole much more flexible and allow a bigger area of contact and grip.
Incidentally the reason the Sipes work is not because they carry water away; they make the sole much more flexible and allow a bigger area of contact and grip.
Leading Change by John Kotter – Essential Reading for Leaders
A highly valuable guide to the tough challenge of leading large-scale change.
A highly valuable guide to the tough challenge of leading large-scale change.