I try to always be strategic in leadership. All leadership involves change and I have learned there are some times when leaders must strategically introduce change.
Tweet If you want to be in leadership get comfortable with change. The best leaders have the traits to effectively lead change. Every leader deals with change, but in my…
Tweet Most leaders want to lead an innovative organization. If you are like me, you don’t necessarily have to be the first to do something new, but you don’t want…
Tweet Healthy teams allow every idea a chance to live. Initially, there are no bad ideas. The healthiest teams don’t contain a built in idea killer or a system that…
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Tweet I love having creative people on teams I lead, but, honestly, they can make leading much messier. Leading creatives can be difficult. In case you’re wondering, here’s the top Google…
Tweet Every organization has a life cycle. In fact, over time an organization will likely be many separate cycles. I have written about organizational life cycles before. But I have…
I remember reading once that the can opener came almost 50 years after the tin can.
Wow, had you ever read that?
Here’s a way to discipline yourself to increase creativity on your team or in your organization…especially during times when money is tight.
When you are ready to make a purchase, ask yourself this question:
In my experience, many of the new ideas for our organization…and for my life…have come while I was doing something else.
Usually when we are working on planning a service it’s when the best ideas for a service develop…
Often when I’m working on a blog post, I get several new ideas for a blog post…
Look at most great inventions and they were discovered while doing something…many times while doing something totally unrelated to what was discovered…
That’s because…