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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 [...]

Have you ever wished for more input, insights, and ideas from the employees on your team? Especially when our businesses are not performing as well as we’d like, we really need our teammates’ [...]

When I was sixteen, I went on a 2-week horseback trip in the Bighorn mountains of Wyoming. Each morning, we were given the coordinates of the location where we would camp that night, then turned [...]

Have you ever invested great time and expense in developing and launching a new product or service, only to see revenues fall far short of expectations? We think we’re delivering exactly what the [...]

In the past few years, Cisco, Coca-Cola, GE, IBM, MasterCard and other large companies have begun to launch “internal startups”—teams of employees who are sheltered from corporate rules and [...]

Do you wish your organization could move faster to take advantage of new opportunities in the market, or to avert emerging threats? Do you feel that you are missing, or seeing but ignoring, [...]

Are you struggling to make your company more agile? In my work with organizations in virtually every industry, I find that business agility – the ability to spot and capitalize on new [...]

I recently met with the leaders of a highly successful company. Sales growth, which had been strong for years, was headed into negative territory. They were desperate to find the next “big idea” [...]

When I first tried kite boarding in January, I wasn’t a particularly fast learner. My enthusiasm and persistence, however, were off the charts. Wild crashes and being dragged through the water, [...]