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Innovation Begins (and remains) at the Top

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post By John Sweeney: Innovation is foundational to business leadership. We empower individuals across disciplines to evaluate, orchestrate, strategize, create and hire, but most importantly, we empower others to innovate. But for innovation, responsibility begins and remains at the highest levels of leadership.

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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

And when delivering bad news, use a velvet hammer. When moments of reinvention arrive, innovating the “how” can be overlooked in favor of focusing on the “what.” I discovered that listening breeds knowledge, knowledge breeds creditability, and credibility earns trust that allows relationships to flourish. How do we do that?

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Leading From the Middle

Lead Change Blog

Dana is a research-based advocate for talent innovation and women’s leadership change initiatives that produce business results. Author information Dana Theus Dana Theus is President & CEO of InPowerConsulting Inc.

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Is Thought Leadership the Same as Change Leadership?

Lead Change Blog

Dana is a research-based advocate for talent innovation and women’s leadership change initiatives that produce business results. Author information Dana Theus Dana Theus is President & CEO of InPowerConsulting Inc.

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The “Piggyback” Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Consider how we have “the way” we do things: the way we make pasta, the way we use a hammer, the way we deal with our day-to-day problems. In business and in life, we tend to address problems in the manner we’ve been taught, failing to see adjacent opportunities and unconventional pairings.

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Michael Hammer Sets the Agenda – Reminding us of the Business Basics

First Friday Book Synopsis

In the customer economy, yesterday’s innovation is baseline today and obsolete tomorrow. Customers no longer exist to buy your products; you exist to solve your customer’s problems. The company that remains self-rather than customer-centric cannot endure. Anticipation is an edge that every […].

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Four Innovative Initiatives to Attract and Retain Diverse Women

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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