Leaders Should Stop Solving Problems
You’ve seen it, but chances are, you couldn’t stop it from happening. At a team meeting, a problem is raised, and the boss—trying to be helpful, or trying to be the hero, or simply because he [...]
Upstarts Kick-Start the Pace of Innovation at UPS
What does a 110-year-old company do to increase the rate of innovation from less than one new business per year to 50? The answer, says David Lee, Vice President of Innovation and New Ventures [...]
Transformation Traps that Cause Companies to Fail
“Chief Transformation Officer” is a trending title. In the past year and a half, Equifax, UPS, Neiman Marcus, Service Master have created this role. Each company, however, means [...]
The Six Most Valuable Companies in the World Are Doing This—and You Should Be Too
Look at the six most valuable companies in the world — Apple, Alphabet (parent company of Google), Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Alibaba — and you’ll see one important element in common. [...]
What would it be worth to know what I’m doing, where I’ve been, and what I’ll buy?
Ten years from now, what mechanisms do you think will exist for people to sell data about themselves?After all, long ago, land, water and in many cases labor, used to be free, until systems were [...]
Avoid Plateaus to Keep Your Competitive Edge
When you’ve just been through a period of intense change or innovation, it’s tempting to take a breather. Our instinct is to let things settle into a steady state. We reach a plateau of learning [...]
Get Inside Your Competitor’s Head, and Win
No matter what business you’re in, and whether the business outlook is bleak or robust, one thing is certain: the success or failure of your strategy hinges on what your competitors choose to [...]
Five Steps to Achieving Consensus–Even When It Seems Impossible
With the fast pace of change in the world today, there is great uncertainty surrounding almost every decision we make. And, when there is uncertainty, there are going to be many different [...]
Change the Game
I recently worked with a large, successful company whose growth had slowed. They needed new ideas—and not just any ideas, but big ideas: new growth trajectories that would generate at least a [...]
What Does Fearless Growth Look Like?
To be able to respond quickly and intelligently to the fast pace of change in the world, we need all levels and functions in our businesses to be creative and responsive. We need speed. Do you [...]
