Welcome to the latest edition of Human-Centered Change & Innovation Weekly and to the Year of the Snake. May lots of new knowledge fill this year with possibility!
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Guest Post from Stegan Lindegaard |
I recently revisited a comment from one of my older posts on how to train and educate executives on innovation. It went something like this: “Innovation requires time and drive to explore new vistas, so it’s understandable that busy employees can’t be bothered with it. The best approach is for senior managers to assign a team, giving them the time and resources to innovate.”
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Guest Post from Mike Shipulski
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Innovation isn’t achieved by creating more ideas. Innovation is realized when ideas are transformed into commercialized products and services. Innovation is realized when ideas are transformed into new business models that deliver novel usefulness to customers and deliver increased revenues to ...
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Guest Post from Geoffrey Moore |
Portfolio management is the most consequential and the most challenging element in strategic planning. There is typically a ton of data, but none of it can really speak to the host of underlying risks that underpin long-range investments in net new lines of business, ones that pay off primarily in ...
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Guest Post from Robyn Bolton
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You need friction to create fire. It’s true whether you’re camping or leading change inside an organization. Yet most of us avoid conflict—we ignore it, smooth it over, or sideline the people who spark it. I’ve been guilty of that too, which is why I was eager to sit down with ...
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Guest Post from Shep Hyken |
It was about 50 years ago, in or around the mid to late 1970s, when a brand’s legendary story was born. This true story perfectly articulates this brand’s culture. It perfectly demonstrates how empowered employees should act and defines how customers should be treated. The story is Nordstrom’s legendary tire story.
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Guest Post from Greg Satell |
Wherever I go in the world to speak and advise organizations, I always get the same question: “How can I get people to listen to my ideas?” The truth is that no one wants to listen to your ideas unless they solve a problem that is meaningful to ...
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