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Archive for: 2012
The difference between good and bad rebels
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?
6 Attributes of an effective strategy
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.…
Innovation must reads of the week: Leadership competencies for disruptive innovation
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Vote for the Top 50 Innovation Tweeters of 2012
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:
- Leaving a comment on his blog
- Send a tweet to @innovate – Tweet to @innovate
DEADLINE for nominations will be July 22, 2012 at midnight GMT.…
3 fundamental lessons about change that strategists must understand
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):…
Hassle statements reveal innovation opportunities
in Innovation
So, my last post hit a nerve. It seems many of you agree with me that good old fashioned observation is the best innovation technique available to entrepreneurs and innovation practitioners. Ok, cool. But, what exactly are we looking for when observing people?
Again, here are some ideas:…