Archive for June, 2009

RIP Michael Jackson

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Like other people in the world I grew up with Michael Jackson’s music and still can’t stop listening to the tunes. I still remember the videos of me emulating Michael’s moves and doing (trying!) [...]

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Leadership lessons from Abraham Lincoln

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Lately I’ve been thinking about leadership and it’s impact on others. I found these 8 leadership principles from Abraham Lincoln to be clear, concise and exemplary of of good leadership practice and thought I share them with you.

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Lincoln on Leadership is an extraordinary treatise on leadership. Is [...]

Leadership

How do we find game-changing strategies?

It’s easy to spot game-changing strategies from the likes of Google
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, Apple, Amazon and Nintendo
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once they’ve executed them.
L.A. Confidential divx In a world of fast changing dynamics where competitive advantage erodes before the next morning; strategies that change [...]

Strategy

10 Most common traits of bad leaders

The authors of a recent article from the Harvard Business Review analyzed a couple of study’s to find out why leaders fail.
As noted from the authors:
In one, we collected 360-degree feedback data on more than 450 Fortune 500 executives and then teased out the common characteristics of the 31 who were fired over the next [...]

Leadership

If you don’t make others better, you’re not a leader

Are you making others better?
The NBA season is over and the Los Angeles Lakers are the Champions.
The big talk is all about how Kobe Bryant finally got a ring without Shaquille O’Neal. But the story that is without a doubt the most important for leaders is Phil Jackson surpassing Red Auerbach as the coach with [...]

Leadership

Innovation drives differentiation (video)

 
Innovation means change.
One of the challenges for big companies is how to ignite the passion for innovation in their organization and this requires is a HUGE change in thinking of how the typical organization is designed to work.
In his book The Designful Company, Marty Neumeier proposes 16 Levers of Change than we can [...]

Innovation

12 ingredients for a culture of innovation

Value creation starts with people.
With so much talk of innovation right now one of the newsletters I really look forward to receiving is the JPB Report 103 bi-weekly newsletter that always has some good nuggets of information in all things creativity and innovation.
Innovation has to be nurtured and it starts with people, and so [...]

Innovation

The elegantly simple way to turn ideas into brilliance

I just finished reading The Genius Machine by Gary Sindell. This is the shortest, most simple, useful book on creative thinking that I’ve ever read!
As Gary puts it, his work is to help people think.
This is not a book with yet another creative thinking technique to add to your arsenal, you can get those elsewhere. [...]

Thinking

Does your idea stand on its own?

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So you got an idea and you want to communicate it.
Part of testing ideas is finding out if your idea is replicable and whether others can teach it.
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We need to find out whether acceptance of an idea
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is dependent on its being associated with a [...]

Thinking

The Qualities of a Creative Genius Mind

So you want to think like a genius?
I gave you a head start on the last post I wrote 8 ways that anyone can use to think like a genius, which I hope you’ll find handy.
Not enough?
If you like mind maps like I do, you need to check out Adam Sicinski. He uses mind mapping [...]

Thinking