Organizations are like giant hairballs. Stacks of rules, red tape, sacred cows, and memos from 1998.
Gordon MacKenzie, the corporate misfit at Hallmark, encouraged people to orbit the hairball. Don’t get sucked into it.
Stay tethered to your organization but not tangled in bureaucracy. You’re irrelevant when you’re too far out.
The line between imagination and reality is fuzzy when you’re 3-years old. Sadly, we outgrow pretend. Everything in the real world began with imagination. Imagination: Maya, our youngest granddaughter, baked cookies for us… Continue reading
People learn to keep their mouths shut when new ideas face a firing squad.
Exploring an idea is different from agreeing with it.
Common wisdom deceives you. You’re boring because some knucklehead said: You fall behind if you continue doing the same things, even when you’re doing great today. 3 reasons variety is essential: #1. Variety… Continue reading
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
Will Durante summarized some of Aristotle’s thoughts when he wrote, “You are what you do repeatedly….” You are what you repeatedly do AND what you do begins with imagination. You only do what… Continue reading
