By: Peter Adebi
The brightest business ideas and strategies will fail or yield suboptimal results in an obstructive culture. Resistance to change, territoriality, silo mentality, lack of trust, fear, unidirectional communication, inbreeding, blame game, egomania (sense of invincibility, of always being right, often leading to disregard for warnings, due process and the law) and limited leadership gene pools have prevented — and continue to prevent — some organizations from achieving the desired level of success. Continue reading »
By: Jeannine McGlade and Andrew Pek
What if we could change the world through play? Or stimulate our creativity with humor? What if how we imagine was recognized as being more important than what we know?
According to Plato, “You can learn more about a person in one hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Since the beginning of time, play has been an important way for humans to express ourselves, unwind, and create. Historically, humans have used some form of play to act out our stories, experiences, and rituals. From art on caves to the epic Olympic games of Greece, play is part of who we are and how we express our creative energy. Continue reading »
By: Ruth Kustoff
Organizational innovation refers to new ways work can be organized, and accomplished within an organization to encourage and promote competitive advantage. It encompasses how organizations, and individuals specifically, manage work processes in such areas as customer relationships, employee performance and retention, and knowledge management. Continue reading »
Wisepreneur had an opportunity to catch up with Jim Finkelstein the co-author of Fuse: Igniting the Full Power of the Creative Economy. In his book he answers the question of how can a company take people with generational differences and form a well-functioning, competitive organization.
W: In your book you state, “Organizations need to create a mashup of the 20th century workplace and the 21st century workforce.” Do you think this is always true or does it depend on the type of business? Are the Millennials more geared to the “new economy” or the “creative economy?” Continue reading »
Jackie Hutter
Open Innovation is unquestionably becoming a “hot” area of focus for many U.S. companies, especially in the current economic climate in which businesses are more than ever focused on smarter ways of doing business. And, why wouldn’t Open Innovation be an intriguing business model when companies can fill their product and technology pipelines for significantly lower cost and with more variability of ideas than typically is possible from their own R&D infrastructures? As a result, more and more business leaders are today viewing Open Innovation as a necessary direction in which to move their company’s innovation efforts. Continue reading »
Mike D Morrison
Remember that popular line from the movie The Wizard of Oz (1939), in which the scarecrow danced around chanting, “If I only had a brain.” Well chances are quite high that if you are reading this you do have a brain and according to the three-brain theory, you have three brains, the cortex, the limbic brain, and the reptilian brain. The three-brain theory states that by studying the three brains (cortex, limbic, and reptilian brain) scientists are able to decipher why people do what they do, how they do it, and interpret the behaviors leading up to and following their actions. Continue reading »
