The hardest part of building an innovative culture in an organization is getting it started. People aren’t sure what they should or can do. If you sit a team around a table and tell them to brainstorm for new ideas they will look around at each other expectantly or look down so they won’t be called on. But seldom will many ideas come from this Read More »
Had enough recession? Ready to leap into growth mode? You don’t have to wait for the economy to bestow growth upon you. You can proactively bring it on. As I’ve worked with people and organizations going through major change for over 5 years, I’ve noticed that people are seeing the greatest results in the area of non-linear rapid growth.
Imagine that you have been invited to join a group of people in a room with casual comfortable furniture and with the job of coming up with ideas to solve a problem creatively and with no pressure. Everyone will be listening to everyone else and looking for ways to enhance each others’ ideas and to piggy-back or combine ideas. The combination and diversity of backgrounds Read More »
Innovation is hot. Everywhere is another book, publication, blog or daily tweet on the need to innovate, how to innovate, why to innovate and/or lessons learned from the great innovators. According to N-Gram Viewer, a Google innovation, 118,000 books were published mentioning innovation in 2008, nearly double the 65,000 published in 1988. Studies by Forbes, Ernst & Young, and The Wharton School of Business suggest Read More »
Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon speaks about innovation at the TED conference.