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Leadership & The Value Of An Inquiring Mind

You're Not the Boss of Me

Reply Harris Silverman - Business Coach July 29, 2010 at 12:39 pm Inquiring minds are not just for leaders. Too many corporations prefer conformity of thought to original thinking, and this limits their potential and inhibits growth and innovation. → Like Be the first to like this post.

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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

It's a huge and real loss in terms of career development. A drain on innovation. But organizations need to develop protocols that avoid making isolation the universal default office norm, and that encourage face-to-face interaction. Some personal-bubbledom is necessary. But too much creates a lonely crowd.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.