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 »
Want to get unstuck? Earlier we talked about being able to recognize the signs that you – or people you’re trying to work (or live) with – are resisting a change that needs to happen. Here are 6 steps you can take to confront resistance and leave it sniveling in your dust. 1. Own it. Recognize and accept that you are in resistance. When we Read More »
Everyone talks about the transformational power of digital and social media, the contribution that technology and the Internet are having on our society – and nobody understands that power better than entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs approach challenges differently than others with a “fail fast, learn quick, try just about anything to realize success” type of approach. When that kind of thinking is applied not just to organizational needs, Read More »
In a recent, much-referenced study conducted by IBM Global Business Services, a group of over 1,500 CEOs in 60 nations and 33 industries agreed that “creativity” is now the most important leadership quality for success in business. Not “global focus,” not “integrity,” not even much heralded “sustainability.” But “creativity.” Steven Tomasco, of IBM Global Business Services, found the result surprising, considering that we have just Read More »
What is really at the heart of business success? Ideas. Without new ideas, companies can achieve no more than the status quo. Ideas lead to better products, more effective marketing and sales, efficient operations and communications; you name it. Without ideas, organizations have nothing. The most widely used tool for generating and developing new ideas in organizations is group brainstorming. Literally hundreds of thousands of Read More »
There’s a lot of people talking about innovation these days, myself included. The good news is that business leaders seem to be sitting up and taking notice of this important subject. The bad news is that once a topic becomes popular in the media, people have a tendency to see it as the next “management flavor of the month.” In other words, they perceive it Read More »
You are handling the leadership responsibilities in your business organization. You know that stagnation is taboo for a leader-a leader always needs to be going upward. You are all for moving in the upward direction, but what can you do to help you go higher? Here are some things that could be vital for you in this regard. Always Keep Your Eye on the Goal Read More »
