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RECENT BLOGS
INNOVATION – CULUTRE – ENTREPRENEURSHIP
CULTIVATING A FAIL FAST CULTURE
In a recent blog, What does it mean to cultivate a fail fast organizational culture we shared what typically happens when people experience failure, and how important it is to uncouple people’s fears about failure and to support and enable them to “normalize” it. How...
THE ART OF CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS
We all know that you can’t innovate if you don’t collaborate, yet how do we make the time to have the candid and creative conversations that a collaborative work environment requires? Conflicting priorities and ever-present digital media distractions constantly...
ACCELERATING LEARNING & COACHING PATHWAYS TO INNOVATE
Having failed to successfully engage, train and retain a few millennials in my global innovation culture consulting, education and coaching business, I hit the proverbial pause button, and asked myself, why isn’t it working out?
INNOVATION COACHING AND MENTORING
The business playing field has changed and will keep on changing, in ways that we cannot yet imagine. Uncertainty and instability are the key drivers of the business game, and many of our coaching clients are challenged by a diverse range of wicked, societal, business...
GENERATING DISCOVERY FOR INNOVATION
Just in case you haven’t seen the latest Star Trek movie yet, here is one of its key messages in generating discovery for innovation, which links to generating fresh new ways of business problem-solving: “You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an...
DEALING WITH FEAR OF FAILURE
In the 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report more than 206,000 individuals were surveyed across 73 economies and 3936 national experts on entrepreneurship from 73 economies participated in the survey. GEM participant economies represent 72.4% of the world’s...
CHANGE YOUR QUESTIONS AND CHANGE YOUR WORLD!
In the incredibly challenging process of compiling, collating and presenting the new ImagineNation MOOC (massive online open course) on innovative leadership, we created a new role for innovative managers and leaders as ‘disruptive provocateurs!’ One of their key...
LEADING AND COACHING INNOVATION
I recently caught up with a long term, highly successful and esteemed colleague who proudly shared with me her latest model for developing high performance leaders in global corporations. It was a very comprehensive and multi-faceted model, that clearly outlined the...
BE THINK AND ACT DIFFERENTLY
Steve Jobs proved that surprising the market again and again with exciting unexpected solutions results in incredible business, customer, and profitable outcomes. He achieved these outcomes despite increases in global competition, a roller-coaster economy, and...
MAKE INNOVATION CRITICAL
Whether you are in a product or service business, if you don’t innovate, eventually you will disappear from the marketplace. Competition is intensifying and most companies are fighting to retain their market positions and customer loyalty. Make innovation a critical...
CULTIVATING A FAIL FAST CULTURE
In a recent blog, What does it mean to cultivate a fail fast organizational culture we shared what typically happens when people experience failure, and how important it is to uncouple people’s fears about failure and to support and enable them to “normalize” it. How...
THE ART OF CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS
We all know that you can’t innovate if you don’t collaborate, yet how do we make the time to have the candid and creative conversations that a collaborative work environment requires? Conflicting priorities and ever-present digital media distractions constantly...
ACCELERATING LEARNING & COACHING PATHWAYS TO INNOVATE
Having failed to successfully engage, train and retain a few millennials in my global innovation culture consulting, education and coaching business, I hit the proverbial pause button, and asked myself, why isn’t it working out?
INNOVATION COACHING AND MENTORING
The business playing field has changed and will keep on changing, in ways that we cannot yet imagine. Uncertainty and instability are the key drivers of the business game, and many of our coaching clients are challenged by a diverse range of wicked, societal, business...
GENERATING DISCOVERY FOR INNOVATION
Just in case you haven’t seen the latest Star Trek movie yet, here is one of its key messages in generating discovery for innovation, which links to generating fresh new ways of business problem-solving: “You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an...
DEALING WITH FEAR OF FAILURE
In the 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report more than 206,000 individuals were surveyed across 73 economies and 3936 national experts on entrepreneurship from 73 economies participated in the survey. GEM participant economies represent 72.4% of the world’s...
CHANGE YOUR QUESTIONS AND CHANGE YOUR WORLD!
In the incredibly challenging process of compiling, collating and presenting the new ImagineNation MOOC (massive online open course) on innovative leadership, we created a new role for innovative managers and leaders as ‘disruptive provocateurs!’ One of their key...
LEADING AND COACHING INNOVATION
I recently caught up with a long term, highly successful and esteemed colleague who proudly shared with me her latest model for developing high performance leaders in global corporations. It was a very comprehensive and multi-faceted model, that clearly outlined the...
BE THINK AND ACT DIFFERENTLY
Steve Jobs proved that surprising the market again and again with exciting unexpected solutions results in incredible business, customer, and profitable outcomes. He achieved these outcomes despite increases in global competition, a roller-coaster economy, and...
MAKE INNOVATION CRITICAL
Whether you are in a product or service business, if you don’t innovate, eventually you will disappear from the marketplace. Competition is intensifying and most companies are fighting to retain their market positions and customer loyalty. Make innovation a critical...
CULTIVATING A FAIL FAST CULTURE
In a recent blog, What does it mean to cultivate a fail fast organizational culture we shared what typically happens when people experience failure, and how important it is to uncouple people’s fears about failure and to support and enable them to “normalize” it. How...
THE ART OF CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS
We all know that you can’t innovate if you don’t collaborate, yet how do we make the time to have the candid and creative conversations that a collaborative work environment requires? Conflicting priorities and ever-present digital media distractions constantly...
ACCELERATING LEARNING & COACHING PATHWAYS TO INNOVATE
Having failed to successfully engage, train and retain a few millennials in my global innovation culture consulting, education and coaching business, I hit the proverbial pause button, and asked myself, why isn’t it working out?
INNOVATION COACHING AND MENTORING
The business playing field has changed and will keep on changing, in ways that we cannot yet imagine. Uncertainty and instability are the key drivers of the business game, and many of our coaching clients are challenged by a diverse range of wicked, societal, business...
GENERATING DISCOVERY FOR INNOVATION
Just in case you haven’t seen the latest Star Trek movie yet, here is one of its key messages in generating discovery for innovation, which links to generating fresh new ways of business problem-solving: “You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an...
DEALING WITH FEAR OF FAILURE
In the 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report more than 206,000 individuals were surveyed across 73 economies and 3936 national experts on entrepreneurship from 73 economies participated in the survey. GEM participant economies represent 72.4% of the world’s...
CHANGE YOUR QUESTIONS AND CHANGE YOUR WORLD!
In the incredibly challenging process of compiling, collating and presenting the new ImagineNation MOOC (massive online open course) on innovative leadership, we created a new role for innovative managers and leaders as ‘disruptive provocateurs!’ One of their key...
LEADING AND COACHING INNOVATION
I recently caught up with a long term, highly successful and esteemed colleague who proudly shared with me her latest model for developing high performance leaders in global corporations. It was a very comprehensive and multi-faceted model, that clearly outlined the...
BE THINK AND ACT DIFFERENTLY
Steve Jobs proved that surprising the market again and again with exciting unexpected solutions results in incredible business, customer, and profitable outcomes. He achieved these outcomes despite increases in global competition, a roller-coaster economy, and...
MAKE INNOVATION CRITICAL
Whether you are in a product or service business, if you don’t innovate, eventually you will disappear from the marketplace. Competition is intensifying and most companies are fighting to retain their market positions and customer loyalty. Make innovation a critical...