Many organizations committed to raising the bar for innovation, end up launching some kind of internally branded “innovation initiative”. Logically speaking, this makes sense, but logic is not the most powerful driver of innovation. Most employees cr… Continue reading
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As the story goes, several years ago the CEO of Dow Corning walked into his company’s R&D lab and spoke two sentences: “Glass breaks,” was the first. “Why don’t you do something about it?” was the second. That’s it. Just two sentences. Then he turned and left the room.
The R&D team, a brilliant group of inventors, was curious, but they were also skeptical. After all, at that time, one of the properties of glass was breakable, just like one of the properties of water was wet. Unbreakable glass? What? Huh? A paradox. A condundrum. A seeming impossibility. Nevertheless, the R&D team got busy and ended up creating 18 different unbreakable glass products. Three of them became commercially viable and one, the now famous Corelle line of dinnerware, became a multi-million dollar line of revenue.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: What powerful question can YOU ask your team, department, or entire organization today? What seemingly impossible breakthrough can you spark by getting people curious enough to go beyond the status quo?
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Unless you’ve been in a coma your entire life, chances are good that, at some time in your life (maybe now?) you’ve been a volunteer for a non-profit organization.
That’s the good news.
The not-so-good news is that many volunteer organizations, wi… Continue reading
“The best way to predict the future is the invent it.” — Alan Kay
Here’s how. A highly engaging, effective, productive two-day offsite for Senior Teams who are committed to co-creating compelling, unified vision of the future for their team, depar… Continue reading
“The best way to predict the future is the invent it.” — Alan Kay
Here’s how. A highly engaging, effective, productive two-day offsite for Senior Teams who are committed to co-creating compelling, unified vision of the future for their team, depar… Continue reading
1. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker
2. “If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates,’ then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.” – Dee Hock
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Alan Kay
Face it. Most corporate strategic planning processes are boring, tedious, and highly ineffective — a day or two of smart, highly paid executives sitting in a hotel meeting room and w… Continue reading
Lots of organizations acknowledge the need to raise the bar for teamwork and collaboration. That’s a good thing. The not-so-good thing is that their process for doing so is often vague, insufficient, or confused. Of all the models on teamwork, Idea… Continue reading
