How Do We Build 21st Century Business Skills?
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Dealing with uncertainty is one of the most important skills for a manager. How can we teach this? By working on problems where we don’t know the answer in advance.
Category Archives: Management
Before Tom Peters, before Peter Drucker, we had Mary Parker Follett
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If we flatten out our hierarchies and manage more inclusively, our organisations are more successful. So why don’t we do this?
Talk – Action = 0
We are what we do
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If we make thinking and acting two separate things, we are much more likely to fail. We have to figure out how to do both simultaneously. Here are some thoughts on how to do this.
Treating Discovery Like Execution Will Kill Innovation
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Discovery and execution are two different things, and we must treat them differently in order to succeed at innovation.
The Case for Dual Innovation
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The first time I was advocating the idea of a dual innovation approach, here also referred to as organizational ambidexterity, is now more than 5 years ago. At this time it became pretty obvious to me that this concept – academically worn-out but deficiently or not at all put into practice in most organizations – would be of increasing importance […]
Zappos Just Pulled Off the Boldest Change Management Move Ever
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Zappos is undertaking a fascinating experiment in change management. It’s important to evaluate this separately from the experiment with the management structure Holacracy that they are trying at the same time.
Five Questions that Will Help You Build an Innovation Culture
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How do we innovate in a risk-averse culture? By realising that a culture is something that we create ourselves, through our interactions with people daily. When we change the way we act, we start to change out culture.
Ideas Change Lives: How Tom Peters’ Changed Mine
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Innovation Lessons from the Rise, Fall, and Rise of LEGO
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After a string of innovation failures, LEGO nearly went out of business in 2003. Brick by Brick tells the story of how this happened, and how LEGO turned things around to become an innovation powerhouse again. There are some broad lessons that can be learned from this story.
Talk is the Technology of Leadership
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Here’s One Good Way to Kill Innovation
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If all new ideas get killed as soon as the first see the light of day, you will never be able to build an effective innovation culture. Here are some thoughts on how to work around this problem.
Four Key Issues in Innovation Management
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Ralph Ohr & I met up at the end of last year and talked a lot about the state of innovation. These are the four issues that we identified as the ones that we think are the most important/interesting in the field right now.