Focus is power. When decided, committed and executed relentlessly, it leads to strategies that define new industries and new standards. It leads to memorable products and services that redefine or create new categories, while also enhancing people’s lives. Yet, focus is a very rare skill.
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This is The Easiest Way To Kill Innovation In Your Organization
Innovation is the opposite of predictable, mistakes will be made and the riskier the bet the higher the chances of failure. With the current state of the global economy driven by the War in Ukraine and climate change, the demand for innovation is as high as its ever been.
Mindset is Everything. Here’s How We Can We Learn And Teach Mindset
I recently trained my leadership team on mindset. Specifically, what it is and how we can develop one that is useful. Here’s a summary…
5 Mental Models That Help You Increase Your Empathy
Most of the significant problems in society involve people, so making progress on these problems requires a deep understanding of people. However, it is very easy to be wrong about other people’s motivations. Specifically, how the act and why they do so. We make assumptions based on how we see the world and so we’re often wrong.
10 Skills Necessary To Develop Innovation Capability In Your Organization
As a leader, your objective is to put your company in a position to be successful consistently. As part of this objective, you have to determine how to best achieve that and what set of capabilities to you need to develop or acquire in order to do so. No capability is more important than the ability to reinvent your company; the ability to innovate.
How Van Moof Reduced Shipping Damages By Changing Its Packing Design
Many people fear that artificial intelligence will replace them and take their jobs. AI has limits that are yet to be overcome, I believe it will happen in phases for jobs that are very repetitive. One skill that artificial intelligence will have a hard time replicating is creative problem solving because creativity is a non-routine activity.
What Alfred P. Sloan Can Teach You About How Being a Listener Makes You a Better Leader
Contrary to popular belief, great leaders are not the best communicators because they talk a lot; but because they listen more than they talk. Listening is a superpower. Here’s a short story on how Alfred P. Sloan led the transformation of General Motors with a listening-driven mindset.