I’m sure you’ve been in meetings where everyone worries about competition more than they worry about customers. It is a fact that for traditionally run businesses, any talk about strategy quickly shifts to competition. It’s unavoidable and it pisses me off. Traditional business practice is based on beating the competition, which assumes that there is competition that looks and plays just like you if you are starting a business. …
Category Archives: Strategy
5 questions to help you think about the culture you wish to create
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Why? Because even a beautifully conceived strategy won’t be executed the right way if people’s values and beliefs are not aligned. In other words, culture is not mandated; it is shaped from the beginning.…
The question Google asks itself to create the future and avoid irrelevance
in Innovation, Leadership, Strategy
How does Google do it?
I just finished reading How Google Works, a tell all book by Eric Schmidt’s and Jonathan Rosenberg about their experience working at the innovation powerhouse. It’s a quick read, and much of the material covered, such as how Google manages, makes decisions, innovates and hires, have been well covered in other Google books as well as in the tech media.…
How to think what no one else thinks
Image source: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/07/fish-dont-know-theyre-in-water/
Want to think what nobody has ever thought? Easy, question assumptions.
There comes a moment in time where everyone agrees with everybody about pretty much everything. For any sized organization that are focused on creating a culture of relentless innovation, hardened dogma is an innovation obstacle they must overcome.…
Don’t be the best, be the only one
in Innovation, Leadership, Strategy
A couple of weeks ago I asked if corporates really want to innovate like startups. One of the obstacles corporates have towards innovating like startups is overcoming their myopic view of competition: me-too-ism.…
5 future-proof questions to ask people in the know
in Innovation, Strategy
Leaders should always be asking themselves What’s new?, What’s next? and What’s better?; that’s where the future is. And we can take deliberate steps to answers those questions……
What is the biggest innovation challenge for leaders of large organizations?
Understanding and accepting the innovation equation:
Innovation = reducing errors + increasing insights
Via Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights (Kindle):…