Unshackle Your Team’s Creativity
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’ [...]
Think Like an Explorer
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 [...]
Is Your Corporate Culture Killing Innovation and Speed?
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 [...]
Be Prepared and Take Action Quickly!
One Monday in 2013, my husband and I spent the night in our car. Shortly after midnight, on our way home from playing hockey (this is a new sport for us, and great fun), we were amazed to [...]
Six Obstacles That Stop Agility In Its Tracks
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 [...]
Look Outside Your Industry for Breakthrough Ideas
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” [...]
3 Mistakes in Managing Risk and Uncertainty
Not long ago, I stood on a pier near Cape Canaveral, Florida and watched a SpaceX rocket launch. People were wearing SpaceX t-shirts and talking excitedly. SpaceX has brought the thrill back into [...]
Take Away, Don’t Just Add
Don’t fall victim to the temptation to add features, services, products, and markets every year. Consider how you can differentiate by taking away features IKEA is one of my favorite examples. [...]
