Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

Visual storytelling is a powerful tool. At Sherwin-Williams , the paints and coatings giant, a museum-style tour of the company’s history graces the headquarters lobby, recognizing employees for their innovations and accomplishments through the decades. By Barbara T. Who says corporate culture isn’t concrete?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Why do some innovations flourish while others flounder? Atul Gawande tackles this question in The New Yorker , using the medical field — arguably one of the places where innovation is most important, given its life-saving capabilities — as ground zero. You have to use mentorship to make an innovative idea the norm.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

We propose that older approaches to advancing surgical safety, focused on technical and structural improvements, have passed their peak; attention must now turn to innovations in how people enact their work “on the ground,” or how they organize in real time for reliable surgical performance. Standardizing procedures.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Someone has incorporated the power of story into presentations!” Think about it this way: You likely spend countless hours collaborating and innovating to put forth really good ideas. For example, Neil Armstrong used the six hours and forty minutes between his moon landing and first step to craft his historic statement.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

In January Google ended Project Titan, an initiative to blanket the earth in Wi-Fi with the help of solar-powered drones. ” The notion of moonshots is a hugely appealing idea, whether you are an enterprise working on a market innovation, a nonprofit organization tackling societal problems, or a government trying to govern better. .

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

For 2012 fellow Rachel Armstrong it was when she was forced to give up her childhood dream to become a farmer in rural Minnesota due to crippling cultural and environmental poverty and a growing lack of connections between rural neighbors, urban eaters, and farmland. And can you turn these powerful moments into action? As will you.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Steven Armstrong of StevenArmstrong.ca. The most powerful habit I have that helps make me a better leader and a better person is exercise. I think practicing gratitude is one of the most powerful things anyone, especially leaders can do. I also look to these Five Habits of the Heart by Parker J. Palmer, which inspire me.

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