As a leader, you’ve likely heard that you need to get all the right people on your bus to make progress. It’s one of Jim Collins’ biggest lessons from his best-seller, Good to Great. But it’s not that simple—as Collins points out, “There are really three parts of this question of the right people. The…
When your entire team takes the Innovation Fitness™ Report, you gain a wealth of data that will help propel your organization forward. You get an in-depth look at team members’ natural talents, behavioral traits, passions, and motivators—allowing you to build teams aligned with each stage of innovation. Understanding how each and every person on your…
Everyone is an innovator! The Innovation Fitness™ Report shows you how you best contribute to innovation based on your natural talents, motivations, and behavioral traits. Video Transcript: The Innovation Fitness™ Assessment is for everyone in the organization, especially starting from the top. Because we believe that everybody is an innovator. But I cannot emphasize this…
A wise innovation mentor recently said something that stirred reflection for me. He said, “The American Industrial Revolution has done a great disservice to us. It shifted the context of the hiring process to considering humans as units of production, where people feel as if they are just a number, easily replaced by someone more…
As Dr. Evans Baiya and I were researching innovation for our book, The Innovator’s Advantage, we came upon an astounding statistic: 85-93% of all innovations fail! We wanted to know why, so we dove deeper, using research and our years of experience helping companies with innovation and development. And we discovered one commonality: Leaders did…
We’ve been going about it all wrong. Ensure your employees are a true match for the job description. Episode Transcript Today, we have a question: why is organizing people such a pain? Let me tell you why. Because we have been thinking about how to administer people the wrong way, the old way. The right…
We believe that every person is suited for a specific task—but how do you show it? Episode Transcript This question is a great one. How do I tell my boss he or she is not suited for the job? This is a tricky one. Use the Innovation Fitness™ Score. We believe that every person is…