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Partnership: A Crucible for Innovation

Lead Change Blog

Luca de Meo, as head of marketing at Volkswagen AG, created a series of two-day events called Marketing Works! The objective was to create deep respect, trust, and an egalitarian community for sustaining innovation. It is about what they are , not what they do.

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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

Only 44 percent say that they can see a connection between what they do and their company’s objectives. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. Having strong values protects you from measuring and rewarding the wrong behaviors and objectives. the job they signed up for in the first place).

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The Books That Impacted My Life In 2014

Joseph Lalonde

YouTility: Why Smart Marketing Is About Help Not Hype by Jay Baer – Bear wrote an amazing book on why helping is the new marketing. This means we shift from feeling objective to making a positive difference. Market in that direction. Blanchard and Miller have a unique way to deliver leadership lessons.

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Positivity at Work by Chris Edmonds and Lisa Zigarmi

Rajesh Setty

Chris Edmonds is a speaker, author, and senior consultant with the Ken Blanchard Companies. As Blanchard’s culture guru, Chris has helped dozens of organizations create high performing, values-aligned work environments. First, quick bios of the authors: S. Whereas happiness is the opposite of sadness, well-being is not.

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The False Promise of Free Capital Flows

Harvard Business Review

Economists built "general equilibrium" models that, underneath all the fancy math, just assumed markets are stable and optimal. Never quite a true believer in it, Blanchard, now chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), acknowledges the terrible damage it caused.