Is Your Innovation Strategy Aligned with Your Culture?
Step back for a moment and take an objective look at your company. Then answer these three questions:1) Is it performing at a high level when it comes to creating innovative products or services for...
View ArticleMy Hero: Warren Bennis, On Becoming A Leader
Up from the Hub archives. Originally published 2007OK, I have to 'fess up to being a fan of Warren Bennis, whom the Financial Times dubbed 'The Dean of Leadership'. I chaired a leadership seminar he...
View ArticleOn Becoming A Leader
Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5Cancel ratingNo votes yetBook Author: Warren BennisUp from the Hub archives. Originally published 2007OK, I have to 'fess up to being...
View ArticleBig-Bang in Practice: Antifragility, Innovation and Leadership
This is one of the more challenging posts I’ve conceived, mainly because I’ve attempted to weave together several seemingly diverse ideas and trends into one composite post.As with much of my...
View ArticleShoot for the Stars! Meet Rocket Man
Hope drives the human spirit. Without it we are nothing but spiritually impoverished souls. But hope is also a powerful catalyst to innovation and change. It propels individuals to dream, to create...
View ArticleSmall is Beautiful: Lessons in How to Destroy Creativity and Innovation
I like small; I typically detest big. With the latter come replication, sameness and boredom. Yawn. Just visit a typical North American mall. Do you prefer to find something unique, which doesn’t exist...
View ArticleSo You Want to be Rich and Famous? Stop Fantasizing!
Okay folks, be forewarned that this post is a bit of a rant. However, it’s written through the leadership lens of self-empowerment.In a period of unrelenting global turmoil, whether financial...
View ArticleDo it Right…and They Will Come: Where Passion Meets Purpose
The road was really narrow and winding–with plenty of hills. Sue was vigilantly looking for the sign which was supposed to say “Lookout Point Road.” Our Google enlarged printed map was of limited use....
View ArticleWorkforce of the Future: Building Change Adaptability, 2nd Edition
Since the release of the first edition of this e-book in May 2011 the world has witnessed many events. Whether it was the Occupy Movement which swept much of the industrialized world, the Arab...
View ArticleThe Myths of Creativity: Book Review
What do the words “creativity” and “innovation” mean to you? Do you imagine a Back to the Future Christopher Lloyd character, bursting forth with spontaneous ideas? Or perhaps you think of a Steve...
View ArticleThe Payoff from Sharing Power
Sometimes we’re reading something. Anything: a magazine, a book or an online article. And then we have what I’ll call a brain fart. An idea pops into our mind, only to stay there for a while, waiting...
View ArticleDiscover Your Leadership Trail
400th Post on WordPress! We’re living in a technological age where almost any type of work can be outsourced to far-away countries, where labor market skill needs of employers are out of balance with...
View ArticleLeading Mistakes... The Accidental Innovator
No flash player has been set up. Please select a player to play Flash videos.Up from the Hub archives. Originally published 2009In this Leading Mistakes clip, Phil Dourado talks about innovation and...
View ArticleBeen There, Run That: Women in Leadership
Kay Koplovitz has certainly been there and run that. The founder of USA Network in 1977, she was the first woman to lead a television network. Her success as the head of USA Network was demonstrated...
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