Imagining Creative Solutions For A World Of 7 Billion Today our world added its 7 billionth member; by 2100, we will be a world population of 10 billion people and growing. The dramatic rise in population will inevitably create many new challenges, challenges that will call forward the creative essence of being human--what, exactly, will that mean?
Updated Tue Nov 1, 2011
Why Activity Alone Isn't Enough Sometimes doing more, faster and better isn't enough by itself. Why else must business leaders know to create the desired results?
Updated Fri Jul 15, 2011
Directors Increasingly Tarnished Image: A New Solution Perceptions of directors have taken a nosedive over the last few years, yet the vast majority of directors are very serious and diligent about their responsibilities. It's as though there is a strong need for a scapegoat for our troubles and what better than the "Scrooges" of business.
Updated Sat Jul 2, 2011
A Non-Profit Discovers Its Soulful Purpose What stories can you create that will have people stampeding in your direction?
Updated Wed Apr 27, 2011
Who Is To Blame? We continue to hear people calling for the business community to be more accountable for their actions. Nowhere is this stronger than in the relationship business has with our environment, our planet, and its resources.
Updated Wed Apr 20, 2011
How Does Your Garden Grow? What kind of energy are you transmitting?
Updated Mon Mar 28, 2011
Executing an Innovation Strategy What kind of strategy do you use to manage change?
Updated Mon Mar 14, 2011
Are You Improving or Innovating? Knowing Makes a Difference Innovating is like retooling a production line WHILE it's running.
Updated Mon Feb 28, 2011
Employ the Unemployed Are your hiring practices outdated?
Updated Thu Feb 17, 2011
Sorry, Mr. Welch. Like all of us, I rely heavily on the media's representation of the facts. In a number of articles I have penned recently, I ascribed the birthing of the "shareholder value" movement to comments made by Jack Welch. I was wrong in assuming this was accurate.
Updated Wed Jan 5, 2011
Change Efforts Fail Over 70% of the Time - Why? There are many reasons why efforts to transform and change an organization fail. I think these are actually symptoms of a more fundamental flaw: the very paradigm we hold of organizations. The current paradigm is that an organization is a machine of production.
Updated Wed Dec 29, 2010
What Jack Welch Started, Jeff Immelt Ends The end of financial engineering?
Updated Wed Dec 15, 2010
Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Transparency? Did the exposure of the thousands of documents revealing the private negotiations of very sensitive and delicate positions among world leaders advance our world or set it back?
Tue Nov 30, 2010
Companies Who Care Outperform All Others – Why? Why do companies who focus on caring at a deep level for all stakeholders out perform the majority of companies who are operating according to well-honed, time-tested business practices?
Fri Nov 5, 2010
Do You Want Alignment or Compliance? Whether the organization is a large corporation, a small work group or two partners--alignment is critical. But what exactly is alignment, and how do we achieve it?
Wed Oct 20, 2010
Effective Decision Making – Why So Many Are Avoided Most people are terrible about making decisions.
Fri Oct 1, 2010
Three Keys to Manifesting Your Success Manifestation is a process of transforming energy from its source state to your desired results - learn how to harness this energy to achieve success.
Mon Sep 20, 2010
The Importance of Strategic Compass in Demand Flow & Innovation A Note to
Our Readers: In this installment, my Quantum Leaders colleague, Gregg Gallagher, contributes another post from our Quantum Thinking blog which continues our "Strategic
Planning is Dead" dialogue. Gregg talks more about the importance
of alignment between a firm's Strategic Compass an the dynamics of the
marketplace.
Tue Jun 8, 2010
If You Snooze You Lose: Real-Time Execution Wave & The Speed of Innovation A Note to Our Readers: In this installment, my Quantum Leaders colleague, Gregg Gallagher, c
Thu May 13, 2010
Strategic Planning is Dead - Setting a Sound Strategic Direction is Not If you don't know where you are going, any direction will get you there.
Thu May 6, 2010
