Uniqueness of Leadership

Develop your leadership within an area that comes natural to you

Through a group in LinkedIn, I was lead to an article from Harvard Business Review entitled ‘Discovering Your Authentic Leadership’. It made me relate to one of our past Innovation Masterclass on Leadership and Culture provoking my neurons to create naïve thoughts around how great the ‘working’ world would be if both were combined. 

Pivoting Behaviour

Pivoting in a ‘behaviour-innovation’ context. 

Recently I’ve been listening and reading many views on innovation culture, but it was not until last week, when I attended an on-line forum entitled "Change Culture by Doing" hosted by Innovation Management that I heard the word ‘pivoting’ in a ‘behaviour-innovation’ context. 

Culture for Breakthrough Innovation

Why are some companies expecting success in breakthrough innovation (this being automatically disrupting market behaviours) without considering the change needed in their employees?

Structuring Front End Innovation

Attitudes to Failure and the Working Environment for Front End Innovation

We often see the FEI process being referred to as ‘fuzzy’ due to the combination of convergent and divergent thinking required when delivering excellence. However, the values of FEI come from companies taking a grasp of their FEI process with a structured approach. This blog post focuses on two of the key aspects to address when structuring the FEI process; attitudes to failure and the working environment.

Ideas Change Culture or Culture Changes Ideas

Do ideas change culture, or does culture change ideas?

Jeffrey Phillips wrote a very interesting article on Innovation Excellence: Do ideas change culture, or does culture change ideas?

I had always been inclined that an idea had all the strength required to change a culture, but this article made me re-think my statement.  I used to believe that all that was needed for a culture to change was a strong thought, and well communication, but Jeffrey does make a good argument by stating that in some cases, the idea won’t be as strong as the culture, and therefore it will not be successful.

Pure Insight Overview

Annual Survey of Key Innovation Management Challenges for Members of Pure Insight’s Innovation Leader Programme

Which challenges keep customers awake at night?
 

Listed below are the top 4 of our 5 key Innovation Management challenge areas, as defined by our ILP Members, in the 2010/11 membership year.

This short publication provides interesting insights into cross company, sector and industry trends surrounding the key innovation management challenges in the year ahead.

Motivating Your People

Non-monetary Incentive and Reward Schemes

Which ones do you use?
 

Money is usually a short-term motivator although everybody needs a certain minimum to feel comfortable to cover their overheads. Promotion is a very good system to recognize performance which does not have to be associated with a huge pay rise to make impact. Telling the internal candidate they are not quite good enough and then appointing somebody from outside at the level above can be a huge error – if the employee shows they are able for 2 years in that role then that should be enough to promote them or they will walk out on you.

Fishing and Innovation - They have much more in common than you think

Innovation and the Art of Fishing

"The critical capability isn't knowing how to fish, or having all the answers; It's knowing how to go about finding the fish and discovering the answers we need." 


Dennis Stauffer makes an analogy for innovation using fishing, and the 'learning to fish', which I found very interesting.

Curiosity Video – Beautifully made, clear and concise message

“We can only pass on the things that we have understood, if we ask questions, and stay curious, then life will have much more in store for us”

Where things come from from Hardy Seiler on Vimeo.

A technique that encourages curiosity... 5 Why's