Tokyo — NBC’s Beijing Olympics coverage was over
the top, with more coverage over the air, on its cable networks, and
online than in all the years since the 1960 Olympics, combined. But
here’s the shocker: despite streaming ...READ»
Welcome to the "Innovating with Meaning" Blog!
As the co-authors of the "Innovating with Meaning" Blog, we aim to share our perspective on how we have seen the discipline or field of Innovation Management ...READ»
New York — Talk about asymmetric innovation, today the big story was Microsoft hiring comedian Jerry Seinfeld for $10 million to help rebuild its stodgy image in what the Wall Street Journal called its “Battle to Beat Apple.” ...READ»
More often than not, our intentions and outcomes do not match. Most of us, leaders at any level, ‘mangle’ our words from time to time. If “to err is to be human”, then to ‘mangle’ is to communicate. The real question is ...READ»
I love to include quotes in my work, words spoken together that capture powerful emotions and messages. Last week, while facilitating a session, a participant asked me about one specific quote: “When you look in the mirror, see ...READ»
One of the great prevailing myths in the workplace is that our time is actually planned. In truth, our day is a series of interruptions and surprises. The best-laid plans give way to spontaneous conversations, debate, and ...READ»
Authenticity is a popular topic amongst leadership pundits. Unfortunately, much of the dialogue has been misleading, absent the critical conversation on role and characterization appropriateness. To be authentic, is not just to be ...READ»
There is little doubt that self-awareness is the pivotal foundation of several popular leadership capacities such as Emotional, Social, Cultural and Aesthetic Intelligence. Self-awareness promotes self-inquiry; challenges to the ...READ»
‘When’ is different from ‘What’.
‘What’ suggests a thing, an item, an object, something that may easily be defined, observed, measured. ‘When’ suggests a time, an experience, a feeling. Whereas ‘what’ may ...READ»
Have you ever witnessed a young infant smile at a stranger? The parent might turn and say, “She likes you”. How does that infant know that this is a person to smile for, or sometimes do the opposite - - turn away and cry. Babies ...READ»
‘Listening’ is a wildly popular and tenacious term in business. When we listen, we are available to new ideas, accessible to others, self-aware and aware of what is happening around us. As such, ideas grow, conflicts are ...READ»
Introduction to Blog
This is a place to explore the emergent field of Organizational Aesthetics and the capacity, Aesthetic Intelligence. To date, artistic metaphors and methods have been employed by business to dramatize ...READ»
New York — Our new CORPORATE INNOVATION PROJECT shows what types of innovation are accretive and why. Look at the commercial aircraft business. Airlines are being killed by today’s fuel costs and many are reconsidering ...READ»
New York — The Wall Street Journal gave a big spread to Sharp’s $9 billion bet on LCD manufacturing today. But Sharp has had a NORTH RIVER MANAGEMENT GRADE F since we began collecting data on it in 1996 and is deep in ...READ»
New York — Chrysler is a victim of a huge problem that plagues Japanese industry and which our new CORPORATE INNOVATION PROJECT is designed to obviate: a fatal lack of demand management. The lack of demand management in Japan ...READ»
New York — Here is an intriguing tale of two innovators. Apple gets a NORTH RIVER MANAGEMENT GRADE A+ and Microsoft gets an A-. Since 1999, Apple has seen sales grow by four times and stock by fifteen times. Microsoft, ...READ»
“It’s not even a sport; it’s just a pointless leisure activity for old white people…”
“It’s worse than watching a filibuster on C-SPAN…”
“It’s like watching grass grow, or paint ...READ»
Tokyo – I’m often asked here what it would take to become a top player in the $400 billion global market for cellphones. Motorola’s troubles offer a once in a decade chance to displace a large supplier and the tools of NRV’s ...READ»
The collapse of the U.S. automotive industry is, without question, one of the greatest tragedies of the age. Hundreds of thousands have lost jobs already and hundreds of thousands more will follow them in the coming years.
What ...READ»
I had a breakfast discussion last week with a friend of mine, a SVP of Sales for a major medical device company, and we discussed the growing practice of CEOs/Presidents and other execs who live in a city other than where their ...READ»
New York — It may seem tasteless to say there is good news from China,
given all its suffering from last week’s catastrophic earthquake, but
there is good news. Wal-Mart, which gets my North River Management Grade A,
will ...READ»
New York — In my December, 2006 North River Advisor, Airbus, I warned that Airbus’
continued weaknesses while global demand for fuel-efficient, jumbo
commercial airliners explodes would attract a powerful new ...READ»
The following chart is based on a June 15, 1994 meeting I had with Dick Jalkut, then president of NYNEX Telecommunications. Dick said that his biggest problem was his outside plant. “It is too expensive to maintain,” he told ...READ»
To get my NORTH RIVER MANAGEMENT GRADE A and ensure profitable growth, more companies are using a “thin” propritary fabric that turns the Edison Model on its head.
These firms have adapted to market forces by ...READ»
Osaka, Feb 18, 2008 — Thirteen years after Sean White and I published The Total Quality Corporation which showed how companies can make money by going green, McKinsey last week announced to the world that companies can make ...READ»
