in Innovation
A few weeks ago I did pitch to a startup accelerator about a project I want to start. This project has to do with social media monitoring, or in my language, “a sense-maker”.
One of the questions that was posed to me at end was: What will make this different?
My response: I aim to make this as simple as possible. (At the moment all I have is a mock-up, no live app)
Hold on, don’t leave yet. This is not a post about my idea, although it kind of is 🙂…
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If you are an Insurgent (like me!), then you are a Rebel. So, what makes a Rebel?
Here’s simple chart I received on a newsletter from Rebels at Work:
Are you a Good Rebel or bad?
in Leadership, Strategy
Picture credit: Martin Oberhäuser
At its essence, strategy is a guide to behavior. And, when communicating your strategic intent, the most important goal is conveying your unique aspects and advantages with specific and engaging words.
This is hard. But, if you’re not being challenged at coming up with an effective strategy statement, you’re not trying hard enough. Because It is a real challenge to translate strategy into execution, this is something we must continually work at, that is, communicating strategy. Research has found that only %14 of employees understand their company’s strategy and direction.…
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in Innovation
Who are your favorite innovation tweeps to follow on Twitter?
Braden Kelley wants to create a list of the Top 50 Innovation Tweeters of 2012 on his blog and he needs your help to put it together. How? Vote on by:
DEADLINE for nominations will be July 22, 2012 at midnight GMT.…
in Strategy
“You must accept the things you cannot change, have the courage to change the things you can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” – Serenity Prayer
Like you, in my neck of the woods, I’ve observed that business leaders have a complete disregard for the forces of change in the world and much less in their industry. They understand their business very well, but not what is changing or will change their business.
And if they think they have an idea of what is changing, they adopt a “wait and see” approach and look at their competitors for direction.
Basically, their business acumen is non-existent. They base their strategy (if any) on luck and hope. And you know very well that luck and hope is not a strategy. They obviously think that because they’ve “been doing this for a long time” and it has worked for them thus far, that they somehow control their fate.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Three fundamental lessons about change are of paramount importance (from the book The Strategist):…
