I recently chatted with Mike Harding, innovator and developer, about creating awesome new products and services. I met Mike when we both presented product and service innovation sessions at The 2012 Silicon Valley Product Camp at eBay in March. He has worked with numerous startups ranging from fruit [...]
KKG: You and I both agree culture eats strategy for breakfast. AMEN! What’s the “breakfast of champions” that culture must have to thrive? Put another way, if there were two elements that created culture “oxygen,” what would they be? They would be Questions and Curiosity. Most problems left [...]
The following blog post is a compilation from a Q&A with Nilofer Merchant. Nilofer, formerly the founder and CEO of Rubicon, is a corporate director at a NASDAQ-traded firm and a lecturer at Stanford. After working at Apple and Autodesk and with many other Fortune 500 firms, she [...]
I watched Moneyball several weeks ago. Though I’m not a huge baseball nut (I enjoy it on occasion, admittedly); I watched it for the great story (and let’s face it, Brad Pitt being in it didn’t hurt). Besides the great performances in this film, this story has some [...]
We had a great time with the Stanford Course on January 21. In that workshop, we did lots of fun, playful and interactive exercises designed to have people flexing their creative muscles. Here are some pics from that event.
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A Southern ex-boss from my high-tech marketing days (and with whom I have become good friends) used to say, “The sun doesn’t always shine on the same dog’s ass all the time.” His offbeat managerial witticisms made me laugh and they were often right. In improvisation – just [...]
The Center for Creative Leadership writes about four mindsets that inhibit positive organizational change. One of those mindsets that pervades and stops progress in its tracks is a “yes, but…” mentality. You know the type of thinking that keeps us from moving forward. We hear it every day. [...]
Too often businesses lament the lack of immediate return on investment (ROI) in new media. ‘If we can’t monetize it, we shouldn’t do it’ is a common complaint. Yet, the reason companies must understand social processes and new media (as a part of the “social” landscape) isn’t because [...]
A More Social, "Human" Model for Brainstorming Means Better Business Outcomes Improvisation is the ultimate, adaptable “social” model of co-creation. Based on right-brain techniques improvisation for idea generation is becoming more common within the enterprise. It’s an idea whose time has come as co-created ideas, products, processes, business [...]
