3 Principles for Smarter Innovation Decisions
Company leaders pride themselves on their ability to make critical decisions to drive their business. Yet, sadly, most companies don’t use hard data to make innovation decisions. The result is an 85- to 95-percent failure rate in innovation. Why don’t leaders use data to make more decisions? It’s because they don’t know that they can! […]
7 Lessons From Davos 2020: It’s Time to Act
Welcome to the era of stakeholder capitalism: a system through which business is an engine for prosperity, not just profit. This moment has been heralded for over a decade—and with growing enthusiasm, the last few years—and was firmly placed in the zeitgeist at this year’s World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland. Celebrating its 50th […]
A Davos POV About a 5th Industrial Revolution
Much of the Davos 2020 community this week will be focused on the looming global climate crisis. Delegates will be frustrated about our seeming tendency to neglect a catastrophic problem that confronts us while making “much ado about nothing” in relative terms. But this is connected to a still larger issue that is illustrated by […]
Disney CEO Robert Iger’s Testimonial to Empathy
In June 2016, Bob Iger (above left, with George Lucas) was in China overseeing preparations for the opening of Shanghai Disneyland. It was the culmination of an 18-year effort and a $6 billion investment that the CEO calls “the biggest accomplishment of my career.” The day before the opening, as Iger was leading a VIP […]
Why Corporate Boards Should be Involved in C-suite Hiring
Corporate Boards’ primary responsibility is the oversight of their organizations’ executive decisions in order to protect the interests of stock- and stakeholders. Yet some lose sight that this role extends beyond tracking bottom line numbers to making sure the right people are in C-Suite positions so that operations run smoothly. Board Members play a […]
Canada Tops Global Poll as Best Country For Social Entrepreneurs While Britain and U.S. Slump
Canada, Australia and France are the best countries to be a social entrepreneur, according to the results of a global perception poll conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in partnership with Deutsche Bank’s Made for Good programme. But Britain and the US saw a significant drop in ranking – with the US plummeting to 31st place from the top spot – since the inaugural survey […]
Why This Company Doesn’t Want To Know Their Customers.
An unusual concept right? At least that’s what Erik Rind, CEO of ImagineBC’s lawyers thought when they were crafting their Terms of Service policy for his company, a market provider for customer data stored on the blockchain. Erik joined me on Episode 47 of the Real Leaders Podcast to discuss what the future of personal […]
Bill Gates: “Tomorrow’s Leaders Will be Those That Empower Others”
We’re operating in a working world in which we’re overloaded, overextended, and overstressed. As we try to handle customer demands, workload, and the daily pressures of our jobs, we’re struggling to stay focused on what matters most. The challenge of having to be ‘always on’ forces us to spend much of our time working on […]
7 Growth Strategies to Spur Fresh Success
Growth. All businesses and professionals should desire it and most certainly need it. But achieving and sustaining growth in today’s uber-complex environment — whether corporate, entrepreneurial or personal career growth — takes multifaceted vision, ingenuity and agility. Indeed, a lack of growth in business speaks volumes. It says a business or individual hasn’t fruitfully evolved […]
Roles on Agile Teams: 6 Tips for Making Sense of the Swirl
Many organizations use the agile scrum model — from the simplest forms advocated by the Scrum Alliance to more complex models such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE). These tend to prescribe a small set of specific, new roles on each team, while allocating most team members to a generic “team member” role. We now […]
