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Use Design Thinking And Boost Revenues By 40 Percent
Once thought of as a nebulous, murky approach to solving a problem, business leaders have embraced design thinking as a creative way to innovate services…
Your Leadership Speaks Volumes When You Don’t Speak Up
Something was wrong. That much became clear just minutes after we walked into the lobby of our client’s offices. The large, publicly traded computer company…
Change Leadership: The Pitfall Of Bell Cows
One of the pitfalls of any large-scale change initiative is ignoring some of the most powerful people in an organization: the Bell Cows. For an enterprise-wide…
A Leadership Culture Is a Competitive Advantage
It may be an age thing but I really don’t like being told what to do, do you? I have never found it efficient to…
Strategic Frontiers: Part I – Charting the Horizons
For those of you who are not familiar with the name Dick Fosbury, you may recognize the maneuver—a la strategy innovation—that made him famous: the Fosbury Flop.…
The Three Factors For Effective Management Performance
Over the years, I’ve been fortunate enough to work with many technology companies to achieve management results, and rather quickly, I recognized a reoccurring pattern.…
Enrolling Others In Your Transformational Vision
In our two previous discussions, we established that transformation is distinguished, in part, by the ability to venture into the unknown. In light of this, the transformational…
Leading an Enterprise Transformation: Part II — It Gets Messy
In the first part of this series, we established that having guts—based on a clear understanding of what you’re getting into—as well as the ability to…
Leading an Enterprise Transformation: Part I — Got Guts?
By now, you’ve read the writing on the wall, and you are probably familiar with what enterprise transformation entails—and what it can achieve for your organization…
Simplification…. It’s Complicated!
Do you have a “simplification” objective this year? Or does your company have “Simplification” as a strategic axis for the next three years? How many of…
Breakthrough Performance Poised To Conquer Pluto
On December 6, a piano-sized space probe was awoken from a nine-year slumber during which it traveled some 3 billion miles. Dubbed New Horizons, the probe has entered…
Compact Breakthrough From Skunk Works
When it was announced late last year, it was billed as a breakthrough that could transform civilization as we know it. It measures just 7…