Better Leaders. Better Results.
“The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” — Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder and co-editor If you’re an innovator or Entrepreneur, you don’t have to quite your day job. You can innovate inside of a big corporation, too. The question is, how can you launch a successful startup within an established …
This is a technique I used on Satya Nadella’s Innovation team to ignite ideas and speed up disruptive innovation. It’s writing mock press releases to frame and share big ideas. You can use mock press releases as a pragmatic approach for ideas generation and development. If you want to create better business ideas to grow …
Whenever I look at companies, (I’m in the business of building better companies for the future), I like to look at their values. Values are a key component of culture. And culture is one of the 5 elements of organizational architecture. So whether you are designing a business or trying to build a high-performance culture, …
I’m going to share what I’ve learned about creating a digital culture, based on what I’ve seen from companies around the world. You can think of culture as the shared values, attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs that characterize and guide a company. My favorite explanation of culture is from The First 90 Days, where the author …
“Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly, rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.” — Bill Gates As leaders are learning how to be more Agile and how to improve agility in their organizations, they look to User Stories. Leaders are discovering how User Stories are a powerful way to prioritize and focus. The power …
