How to Take Advantage of Future Trends Earlier Than Your Competition
The future doesn’t just appear, it is constantly developing. By looking for, by listening for clues to how the future is developing you won’t be…
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Asking For Ideas Is Bad For Innovation
When you follow the same innovation path as most organizations, two-thirds of your new products, new services and new ideas are likely to fail. When…
To be Successful, Participate in the Outcome Economy
No matter what business you think you’re in, you’re in the tool business. Your customers are not buying a set of features. They’re hiring the tools…
Innovation: What You Think Matters Little
No matter what business you think you’re in, you’re in the tool business. Your customers are not buying the set of features you offer. They’re…
Questions are the Answer
Why is it that everything is always in the last place you look? The obvious answer is that once you find it you stop looking.…
Not Even Samurai Can Manage Their Emotions
As an executive and leader, do you believe that managing your emotions is something you could and should do? Well it’s a lofty goal, but one…
Learn from Your Own Mistakes; Let Others Learn from Theirs
Make a mistake, admit it, learn and profit from it by creating an action plan for how to avoid the same mistake in the future.…
Commonplace Genius – Borrowing Ideas from Other Industries to Solve Business Challenges
Borrowing ideas from other industries and disciplines is one of the best ways to make breakthrough improvements at your own organization. It also makes you…
Business Coaching Helps You Reach Goals Sooner
Successful athletes know that a coach helps them achieve peak performance. Like a star athlete, you have a goal, but you also recognize that a…
What’s Past is Prologue
These words from Shakespeare’s, The Tempest[i], tell us that what has happened in the past has led up to today and influences tomorrow. We can…
