The Leader’s Guide To Executing Innovation
Many would-be innovators obsess over ideas, wait for inspiration to strike, and believe that with the right idea, success can miraculously come overnig…
Innovation Leadership
Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable
Safely stepping into the unknown This creates an opening and a threshold to partner with others in resourceful and creative ways and supports them, …
Being Playful And Experimental To Create And Innovate
Being playful and experimental In the arts and many other industries, and in our professional and personal lives, innovation can only happen with th…
Re-Thinking For A New Age
In our last thought piece , we explored the theory that, rather than living in a world where everyone hates to fail, why not adopt a rethink-respond- r…
Everyone Hates To Fail – Why Do You?
If you have ever had a significant setback, made a serious mistake, or failed at completing an important task, you will have experienced some kind of d…
Is Innovation Capital Important to Us?
How do I define innovation capital? Innovation capital is the sum of all that promotes the development and changes required for achieving innovation…
Developing 21st-Century Superpowers For Leaders And Teams
Critical art of re-thinking The critical art of re-thinking involves being actively open-minded, hearted, and willed: To learning, and possibly…
Effecting transformational 21st-century learning
I was privileged to attend one of the very first Theory U Presencing Workshops, presented by the MIT Sloan School of Management all the way back in 200…
Reskilling and Upskilling People and Teams
The pandemic has increased the pace of change in a digitally accelerated world, and at the same time, it is forcing organisations, leaders, and teams t…
Managing Both the Present and the Future
In my last thought piece, I described the three characteristics that offer senior executives a “unique unfreezing opportunity” from the disruptive COVI…
Developing A Human-Centric Future-Fit Focus
In a recent article, “Organizing for the future: Nine keys to becoming a future-ready company” McKinsey and Co suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic has…
Product Managers: The New Leaders of the Digital World
Agility in product development processes is the mastermind that guides the development team through multiple iterations, all while maintaining the prod…
How can Companies Forecast Patent Portfolio Related Costs?
Predicting the costs of patenting innovations and maintaining a patent portfolio is a crucial part of the budgeting process. However, cost prediction i…
Co-Creating Future-Fitness
I recently opened the door to a threshold for a new kind of co-creative, collaborative and cohesive team spirit to catalyse change through “innovation …
Innovation Teams Don’t Innovate
In our first thought piece in this series, we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration. We then described the range of emergin…
Leader’s Ability to Communicate Effectively
A leader’s ability to communicate clearly and effectively with employees, within teams, and across an organisation is one of the foundations of a succe…
Treat Innovation As A Quality, Not An Outcome
A client of mine recently expressed a common frustration related to innovation: “Everything we’re doing right now is critical to the business. We don’t…
Catalysing Change Through Innovation Teams
What makes Israel so innovative? And what has this got to do with teaming? One of the key discoveries we made when we relocated to Israel almost te…
The role of discipline in innovation
Innovation is, without a doubt, a creative endeavor. However, many people still think it’s all about creativity. There’s a magical a-ha moment, and the…
Why innovation and renewal needs your attention today
Global crises like COVID-19 or Black Swan events are not catalysts for leaders to think about the future. Future-focused leaders think about renewal al…