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How tuned in is your organization? I asked a friend who had just moved to a new organization, “How’s the new reality?” He said, “To borrow a phrase from Leonard Sweet, I live in the Google Era, but my work environment is Gutenberg Era.” Makes you think, doesn’t it? How many of our organizations are operating [...] “To reach people no one else is reaching we must do things no one else is doing.” That line seems like a no-brainer. Obvious. And yet, when I heard Craig Groeschel say that at Willow’s Leadership Summit last year I scrambled to write it down and then had trouble thinking about anything else for the rest [...] How does arriving where you’ve already been sound? Depends I guess. If you like where you’ve been, you might want to go there again. After all, there are places we’ve been that we love going back to. At the same time, as a metaphor for vision…most of us are dreaming of arriving somewhere we’ve never [...] One of the key concepts in Roger Martin’s The Design of Business is the notion that the pursuit of reliable or predictable results keeps many organizations from the kind of exploration that pursues the next opportunity (or the more current opportunity). This is big for all of us, but to really catch the significance you [...] One of the highlights of Drive ’08 was Andy Stanley’s talk, Random Thoughts On Leadership. I’ve referenced it before and it is a great talk. Really one of those talks that the audio hangs in the consciousness for years. The basic gist was that Andy took 5 memorable quotes that had affected his thinking and [...] Stuck organizations ask the question over and over. “How can we get out of the rut we’re in? Why can’t we come up with a game-changing innovation that is more than incremental?” Are you there? When you look at your organization, are you looking for a way out of a rut? You may need [...] In developing a design-thinking toolbox, one skill that must be added is abductive thinking. First, I know. I had to add the term to my dictionary. A concept introduced by Charles Sanders Pierce in the twentieth century, here’s the idea: “It is not possible to prove any new thought, concept, or idea in advance; all new [...] I don’t know about you, but I am a sucker for a beautiful phrase. I tripped across this one while working my way through Change by Design. “A team that understands what is happening will not feel bound to take the next logical step along an ultimately unproductive path (p. 17).” What [...] One of the best things about weekends is that there is usually time to pull a new book off the stack and spend some time between the covers. And every once in a while I find one that pulls me right in and really catches my attention. Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms [...] I continue to find the idea of meaning a very interesting concept. One that all of us ought to become familiar with and then begin to spend time thinking about…as it pertains to our business. In Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean, meanings “reflect psychological [...] |
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