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It’s Not Impossible – It Just Hasn’t Been Done Yet

N2Growth Blog

How many times in your career have you witnessed someone say, “that’s impossible – it simply can’t be done.” Whenever I see leaders focus on maintenance over innovation, I see people who have unnecessarily drawn the line of impossibility in the sand. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth.

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Influencing Creativity and Innovation

Persuasive Powerhouse

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Robert Gates on the Essentials of Leading Change

Leading Blog

Only a committed leader can keep an organization—a bureaucracy—on its toes, continuously adapting, innovating, improving.” Without micro-knowledge, you are the prisoner of your bureaucracy and your staff, and they will play you like a cheap fiddle.”. This is the best possible preparation of the bureaucratic battlefield. “For

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The Best Things in Business are Free

In the CEO Afterlife

Some companies thrive on innovative cultures. I spent an entire career espousing the power of creativity, and the companies I touched did very well by it. Bureaucracy lurks on the periphery, waiting for its opening to subvert the lean, mean, business machine. This is the way we do things around here.” Mindsets are free.

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The Science Behind Getting Ahead At Work

Eric Jacobson

In the new world of work, we must learn how to bridge our differences with others so we can collaborate, innovate, and solve complex problems at work. Learning to manage how work gets done won’t just advance your career; it will benefit of the people you work with. The same is true for employees.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. Relax the culture. .

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Learn to Teach. Teach to Learn

In the CEO Afterlife

And although I am no longer engaged in commercial business, I am once again “thinking business” and enjoying the rush of discovering the ideas and innovations of today’s entrepreneurs. That idea can also change you; believe me, there is nothing like a business breakthrough to set the right foundation for the rest of your career.