Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2017

If you’re like most managers, you’re neck deep in performance agreements, stretch goals, and the dance between managing your boss’s expectations and warning your team not to sandbag. ” That approach will get the job done, but it’s unlikely to unleash breakthrough innovation or a head-turning year.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Innovations. Opportunistic businesses of all varieties can relieve this tension with innovative new products, services, experiences or entire new business models.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2020

Artists and musicians have studios, crafts people have workshops, professors and pastors have studies, and scientists have laboratories. The philosopher Immanuel Kant worked in bed at certain times of the day with blankets arranged around him in a particular fashion. Where is your creative space? Where do you do your best work?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2019

A business card may sound like an old-fashioned form of marketing, but people still like to have a physical copy of a company’s details to hand. Similarly, you may consider establishing workshops to your customers to help them with any problems they may have. Creative Business Cards. Digital Signs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone. What if I don't have that foundation?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? However, recently they began to take a more holistic approach, focusing on lifetime value and their most profitable segment, the “fashionable spender.” This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways. What makes marketing creative?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. LVMH’s Fashion Group, part of the massive French luxury products group, is one team that’s embracing this approach. The consumer packaged goods (CPG) landscape is in the midst of a significant shake-up.

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