Inspiring the World with Innovation
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” — Lao Tzu For Friday Reflection, I took a look back through the project teams I’ve lead through some big challenges and even bolder ambitions. I listed out the people …
“Email has an ability many channels don’t: creating valuable, personal touches – at scale.” — David Newman Have you ever read an inspiring email or a memo from one human to another that helps you see a whole new world of possibility? I’m sure you’ve read lots of bad emails, too, just like there are …
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain You can create a better stage for high performance teams if you know how. The key is to know what dynamics actually underpin high …
“What is coming is better than what is gone.” — Arabic Proverb Here’s an example of a memo I wrote to try and paint the vision and idea of business evangelism at Microsoft as a way to accelerate and de-risk Digital Transformation. Well, it’s really focused on the idea of building the business innovation capability …
“A leader must see the external opportunities and the internal capability and culture—and all of the connections among them—and respond to them before they become obvious parts of the conventional wisdom.” ― Satya Nadella Down below is a version of Satya Nadella’s famous email that has been shared on the Web many times. I think …
