leaders are time-strapped, but a major part of transformation efforts includes leaders making time to provide the extrinsic motivation necessary to kindle the intrinsic motivation that may have extinguished inside your people.
There is a need for chaos and order. Too much order and you fossilise. Too much chaos and you fall apart. These things are always in fruitful harmony.
Peter Drucker had it right when he said, “The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.”
Swiss cheese Model for Ideas Aidan McCullen. Have you noticed a colleague who was once full of ideas, who has gone unusually quiet? Perhaps you may assume they are just disinterested? You may think they are having a bad day? Perhaps instead, they have fallen prey to a corporate lobotomy? Perhaps they are worn down? Perhaps they just couldn’t be bothered any more.
Rob Fitzpatrick is author of “The Mom Test, How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you”
His book details how customer conversations go wrong and how we can do better.
Elvin Turner goes behind the scenes of some of the world’s most innovative companies and decodes the tools, hacks and approaches that help their managers systematically spark ingenuity, agility, and profitable creativity at scale.
We need to spread our bets when we explore with innovation. We need leadership to support innovation initiatives.
Shirt Woot “Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection […]