One of the big news from last week, apart from Friday’s massive cyber attack, is the merger of AT&T and Time Warner. A few people have asked about my thoughts to said deal…
Failure or imagination. More business as usual. That’s it.…
Category Archives: Leadership
Want To Hire Innovators? Here’s How You’re Dismissing Them
in Innovation, Leadership
Most organizations are not setup to hire innovators, rather they filter them out. Why? Because they follow the tried and true solid advice for making good hiring decisions: hire for culture-fit.
To hire for culture-fit is to hire for comfort, the short-term, sameness; to keep optimizing what is rather than creating what’s next. The problem with hiring for culture-fit is that if your culture doesn’t reward risk taking and learning from mistakes then you will filter out innovators.
This is how most organizations work.…
Embrace Weird To Find The Next Revolution
Established companies don’t like misfits, renegades, weird people. It’s a fact. I always ask leaders of established businesses if they keep their eyes open for a Steve Jobs to hire; their answer is no.
I’m not surprised. See, most leaders of established businesses are preoccupied with maintaining the status quo, keeping the wheels turning, making sure nothing disrupts their day to day. So, bringing in misfits is out of the question because it means chaos.
Yet chaos is what’s needed to find the next revolution!…
Fierce Optimism For The Future: What All Great Leaders Have
What does the leader of the future look like?
The best leaders make awesome where awesome is not by having a strong point of view of the future and is a learning animal; that’s what they look like.
Make Awesome Where Awesome Is Not
Every assumption is an innovation opportunity. The assumption that only a few of us is brave, creative and bold needs to be killed for everyone to make an impact in the Next Economy, one where most routine jobs will be delegated to algorithms and robots.
The only thing we can’t delegate, and shouldn’t, is that what makes us human: creativity. If you want to be creative in bed, sites like Milf blog might be the one for you.
One of my all-time favorite movies is Big, which stars Tom Hanks. It’s “must watch” for anybody who wants to drive creative thinking in their organization!
Why?…
Complacency Is A Silent Killer
Complacency kills…big time!
Two weeks ago I was invited to talk to a group of marketing and MBA students at INIDE University about what it takes to make innovation happen inside established organizations.
As I mentioned in a previous post, nothing prepares you for reinvention. There is no class, course, workshop that teaches one how to “unlearn” old habits and skills which only use is to maintain the status quo. …
How Innovators Distort Reality
Are all innovators alike?Michael Dearing, a venture capitalist, has developed strong views on the similarities of innovators after screening over three thousand founders and funding over sixty companies since 2006. Dearing observed that the most successful founders are prone to certain “cognitive distortions”: biased, even objectively inaccurate, ways they think of themselves and filter information that enable them to make quicker and better decisions, bounce back from setbacks, and attract talent.