Category Archive: Innovation

Challenge All Requirements

Reject requirements you can’t defend.

Dead policies scare people into submission. Established practices need an exorcism.

Are today’s requirements good ideas gone bad?

“Simplifiers are accelerators.” Jon McNeill

Learn five questions that challenge requirements.

Average Ideas Are Dangerous

The danger of average ideas is they work.

“The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.” G.K. Chesterton

Old dogs don’t learn when they can’t unlearn.

Average ideas are safe. It’s scary to embrace new ways of thinking.

We desire change but refuse to let go.

Don’t be a Leader with So Many Ideas

Are you a leader brimming with ideas?

Ideas are like rabbits. Multiplication leads to disease.

The only thing worse than a leader with no ideas is one with too many.

“Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.” Paul Valéry

What if you have too many ideas?

3 Kinds of Leadership for 3 Kinds of Innovation

I’m delighted to host another important book giveaway.

Do you know the three kinds of innovation and three factors for leadership success in each?

Organizing for an Innovative Culture

New Book Giveaway!! 20 copies available!! Leave a comment on this guest post by Bella Rushi to become eligible for one of 20 complimentary copies of her new book, The Innovative Executive: Leading Intelligently… Continue reading

Constraints, Creativity, and the No. 2 Highest Paid Dead Celebrity

The highest paid dead celebrity of 2020 was Michael Jackson. No. 2 on the list is the children’s author, Dr. Seuss. He died in 1990. According to the Associated Press, Seuss earned $33,000,000.00… Continue reading