Have you ever noticed how you come up with your ideas? Have you noticed how others come up with theirs? I’ve been thinking about this lately and seeing how on Twitter there’s no shortage of people tweeting ‘x ways to innovate’ back and forth (myself included!) it makes me think non-innovation people will get confused [...]
Accepting reality has it’s advantages as it makes you focus intensely but it also has it’s disadvantages because it puts imagination in the backseat! Act different to think different. Easier said than done right? The truth is we’ve already been-there-done-that when we were kids, we just forget we did it. How is this possible? [...]
If you can’t solve a problem, it’s because you’re playing by the rules. – Paul Arden All a disruptor really does is change something from one state to another by breaking patterns. Google is a typical disruptor, they seek ways to ‘disrupt’ a familiar flow in how things get done to another and then [...]
Look beyond the immediate battle and build on a position of weakness to take control. I was watching my favorite childhood cartoon movie, GI Joe, yesterday and was reminded of a very powerful strategy that the terrorist organization Cobra uses in most of the cartoons that can be applied in business. If you’re [...]
What if your new product or service was like a cow? How would look like? How would it work? Why would people want to use it? Why would they hire you? Would they tell their friends about it?…Get the picture? Sometimes when we’re looking for inspiration but can’t find it we get stuck, a [...]
Make new mistakes? Yes, that’s right. If you always follow the tried and true, what worked before, being right, always having the same answer then you’ll never come up with anything original. To foster a culture of innovation you need to go off the same road you’ve always been walking in and if you feel [...]
As leaders we have to be able to paint a picture in people’s minds, shape the future and to bring it to the present. A dream is also a vision I was at a recent New Leadership workshop with a client down in Mexico and one of the exercises is what we call [...]
