If you're going to turn on an innovation engine, a lot depends on whether managers listen for the brilliance in their employees' ideas that they can then help test, or whether they listen for what's wrong and why it won't work. - Shari Ballard, Executive vice president of human resources and … Continue Reading ››
Category Archives: Innovation
Innovation and creativity
Ask the CHO: Making change happen
On my post about liking vs. loving your job, Gabe asked an interesting question in the comments:
What do you do if you work at a place where, every time you try to “raise your game???, i.e. creating coding standards, improving functionality of commonly used systems, etc, you are … Continue Reading ››
BMW sez: bureaucracy sucks
We say no to: Compromise Complacency Bureaucracy Red tape Lowest common denominators Middle managemet Second guessing Herd mentality So we can say yes to good ideas.BMW fights bureaucracy. This is cool. Why is it … Continue Reading ››
Radical thinking
Pat May just started a blog called Radical Thinking and it looks great already.
Check it out, especially his recent post on the habit of getting ideas, which includes this choice Steinbeck quote:
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to look after them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
Funky government
Karen Høeg, a good friend of mine, works for the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency and if you think that's a mouthful you should see it in Danish: Erhvervs- og Selskabsstyrelsen. They are:
the official place of registration for Danish Businesses. In parallel the DCCA administers legislations regulating Businesses, amongst others … Continue Reading ››
Quote
One day early in this journey it dawned on me that they way I'd been running Interface is the way of the plunderer. Plundering something that is not mine, something that belongs to every creature on earth. And I said to myself "My goodness, a day must come where this is illegal, where plundering is not … Continue Reading ››
Wanted: Innovation exercises
I may be doing an innovation workshop next week and I'm looking for some new, great exercises to do with the participants. Do you know any good ones?
I'm especially interested in short, fun activites that either get the creative juices flowing or make an important point about innovation and creativity. Your help … Continue Reading ›› CSR – Doing well by doing good
- Workplace issues (such as training and equal opportunities)
- Human rights
- The business' impact on the community
- Reputation, branding and marketing
- Ethical investment
- Environment
- Ethics and corporate governance
My lazy life
Some books get you thinking and Fred Gratzon's The lazy Way to Success definitely did that to me. Damn you, Fred!
I have seen the light. I now realize that my ingrained laziness has not only been one of the major forces shaping my life, it's been a boost to almost every important area of … Continue Reading ››
Video game leadership
Joi Ito learns something about good leadership by playing the World of Warcraft game:
I think that the ever-evolving user interface and communication tools that we are developing might impact the future of management in the real world. My feeling is that what we are doing in WoW represents in many ways the future of … Continue Reading ››