“I know the business.” The word, “know”, is the enemy of improvement and innovation. Innovation has many enemies, but experience and groupthink are its biggest. And because people run businesses, every single one of them will fall into the trap.
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Great Leaders Are Consistently The Biggest Thinkers In The Room
As a leader, do you lead with courage? Are you challenging the status quo? Are you thinking big? These are important questions to reflect on because as a leader you set the tone. Do you want your team to think and act boldly? You have to think and act boldly.
Building a Champion Mindset: The Power of a Confident Self-Image
What do Lebron James, Tom Brady, Kobe Bryant, Jack Nicklaus, and Michael Jordan have in common? They are considered to be the best at what they do. How did they do that? Attitude, talent, discipline, and consistency; are the usual suspects. But you know what separates them from the rest? Their mindset, how they think, enables them to operate at peak performance.
11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
“Hang out with weird, and thou shall become more weirder” Tom Peters once said when advising on how you can become more creative. This will always be true because something you can bet on not changing in the future is human nature.
The Most Imporant Leadership Principle: Be The Example
“I want quality! Why aren’t we delivering quality consistently?” I was talking with a client recently about his operation, and he mentioned a few challenges his business has been having with quality issues. His business has been dealing with growth issues for many years, unable to grow because they don’t have the size and competence to deliver at a larger scale.
Use These 20 Questions To Help Stimulate Innovative Thinking
Innovation is as much about attitude and perspective as it is about process. A big one for me is shifting perspective to stimulate innovation. So, how do you inject ‘perspective’ into your thinking? It all starts with a provocative question.
Are “Best Practices” Stifling Innovation In Your Business?
“Best practices are just past practices. You need next practices.” I once said to a client. The reason? Visit any traditionally managed business and you’ll see the same pattern: they operate like their competitors. They hire the same people and have the same business model, processes, and everything else in between.