People tend to rise or fall to the level of expectations placed upon them. So if you're a leader, and you want more innovation, your first action is simple: expect innovation!
If you're a video person, I lay it all out in the video below. If reading is more your thing, skip the video and hop straight to the transcript below!
MAY
2021
Ask the Scary Question
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Do you want to REALLY spark your innovation in a way that moves the needle professionally? Then you and your team need to ask the scary question!
If you're a video person, I lay it all out in the video below. If reading is more your thing, skip the video and hop straight to the transcript below!
MAY
2021
Why “Turning Creativity into Money™”?
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Why do I keep talking about "Turning Creativity into Money™"? Well, listen my children and you shall hear, of a story from my TV career.
If you're a video person, I lay it all out in the video below. If reading is more your thing, skip the video and hop straight to the transcript below!
MAY
2021
Innovation in a Post-Pandemic World
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The world has changed—in profound, fundamental ways. How can you and your team use innovation to seize the ensuing opportunities? You start by asking different questions.
If you're a video person, I lay it all out in the video below. If reading is more your thing, skip the video and hop straight to the transcript below!
APR
2021
You see it so often you probably don’t even notice it anymore.
Heinz 57 Varieties.
You see it on bottles of ketchup, jars of pickles, cans of baked beans.
Heinz 57 Varieties.
Which begs two questions: Are there really 57 varieties? And, if so, 57 varieties of what?
The answers, respectively, are: no; and, it doesn’t matter.
That brilliant slogan, which made Heinz a world-famous brand, was created when a person connected two dots that nobody else ever had before.
It happened in 1896 when Henry John ...
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2020
In a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive world, the next breakthrough idea wins.
Depending on how you feel about #innovation, #creativity, and #breakthrough thinking, you may find this concept either frightening or exhilarating.
It’s frightening if you think of innovation, creativity, and breakthrough thinking as specialized skills that are only available to “the others.”
It’s exhilarating if you realize that innovation, creativity, and breakthrough thinking are natural human traits that are available to us all.
In other words, if you ...
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2020
You’ve heard of FOMO, right? Fear Of Missing Out. It’s why we’re addicted to Facebook and Instagram and all the rest. It’s why we tell our devices to notify us the instant anything happens anywhere in the world. Because heaven forbid we’re not in the know!
Industry leaders have a similar fear, which I call FOD: Fear Of Disruption. They don’t want to be the Blockbuster to someone else’s Netflix. They don’t want to be the ...
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2020
Why You Need More Distractions in Your Life
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I grew up in the shadow of an Amish dairy farm (depending on where the sun was, of course) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Now, if you’ve spent as much time around the Amish as I have, you know that they’re kind of big on horses. And if you’ve spent as much time around Amish horses as I have, you know that they all have something in common.
They’re all wearing blinders.
Partially as a fashion statement, of course, but mostly so that they ...
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2020
We all run into obstacles.
Maybe it’s a business change that we don’t like; a traffic jam when we’re already late; a system or process that feels overly cumbersome. But we all run into obstacles.
And what do we do when that happens? What do we do when we run into that obstacle?
We whine. Grumble. Curse. Complain. Gripe about it to others.
And that’s where most of us stop.
In other words, the entire process for most of us looks like this:
- Run into obstacle.
- Complain ...
JAN
2020
How to Cultivate a Disruption Mindset
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Disruption.
It’s more than just a corporate buzzword.
It’s the new way of the world.
Amazon did it with retail. Uber did it with transportation. Apple did it with phones and other devices.
Ask any CEO what they fear the most, and you’ll hear a variety of answers. Recession. Talent exodus. Brain drain. All valid concerns. But the one that really keeps them up at night — the one they talk about in the back rooms where nobody else can hear ...
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2020