What Leaders Can Learn From Playing Video Games: Mentoring Angry Birds players rack up high scores from exhibiting the most destructive of behaviors. In the world of management, however, it is important to think about the young birds, before they become angry, and how to help them find their place. How can you help them prosper? How can you apply mentoring to help them test … [Read more...] about What Leaders Can Learn From Playing Video Games: Mentoring
Scenarios Go Back to the Future: 5 Reasons it is Hard to Predict the Future
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Scenarios Go Back to the Future: 5 Reasons it is Hard to Predict the Future Scenarios Go Back to the Future: 5 Reasons it is Hard to Predict the Future was written on Oct 21, 2015. Many posts today are focusing on what the Back to the Future II team got right and wrong about the future. I don’t think as a percentage of speculation, they … [Read more...] about Scenarios Go Back to the Future: 5 Reasons it is Hard to Predict the Future
How to Make Strategy Stick
How to Make Strategy Stick For my Pinchot University class on Sustainability and Strategy, my students nominated the topic of making strategy stick as their discussion topic. Please join them in offering questions, comments and contributions to this list of approaches for how to make strategy stick. Have a good strategy. While some consultants and advisors start … [Read more...] about How to Make Strategy Stick
Practice Insight: Seven Points to Negotiate for Document Collaboration
A Practice Insight: Seven Points to Negotiate for Document Collaboration Download the PDF here: Document Collaboration: Avoid Being Lost In Immediacy Any document that requires co-creating, meaning input from more than one author, and/or feedback on the structure, concept, meaning or grammar of a document, requires collaboration, and good collaboration requires … [Read more...] about Practice Insight: Seven Points to Negotiate for Document Collaboration
Challenging IBM’s Innovation Findings in ‘Insatiable Innovation’
Insatiable Innovation? I was intrigued by the IBM Institute for Business Value report titled Insatiable Innovation. I like the title. America has lead the world to desire, expect and consume innovation at an increasingly rapid pace. The report passes no judgment on this phenomenon. The researchers, however, should ask if this is a good or bad thing. They do not address … [Read more...] about Challenging IBM’s Innovation Findings in ‘Insatiable Innovation’