After 50 years of serving in a wide variety of leadership roles, I’m convinced that every leader will face multiple crises as a normal part of the leadership journey. In my own experience, I have found myself in the middle of crises brought on by leadership failures, destructive fires, economic downturns, supply chain breakdowns, regulatory…
A story from the 2019 Innovator’s Advantage Academy with Better Business Bureau Great West + Pacific. If there is one takeaway from my journey into the world of innovation, it’s that truly successful innovation requires courage and the willingness to let go of uncertainty. Welcome back to the Innovator’s Advantage Academy—a behind-the-scenes, unscripted backstory of what…
The single most important mandate of innovation is to create new value. Similarly, one of the mandates of entrepreneurialism is to deliver value. Yet, innovation and entrepreneurialism are not necessarily the same. As a matter of fact, they are two different subject areas that require distinctive mindsets, skills, passions, and behaviors. One of the biggest…
A story from the 2019 Innovator’s Advantage Academy with Better Business Bureau Great West + Pacific. Few things can be scarier than challenging ourselves and our preconceived notions. Yet, fewer things can be more rewarding. This is my behind-the-scenes, unscripted story of how I challenged myself and my staff. We tore down our preconceived notions and…
These days you hear and read a lot about innovation. It’s the common buzzword and there are constantly new articles and blogs written about it, but most of it is simply a rehashing of what has been written in the past. There’s very little new thought going into innovation, which is ironic if you think…
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