How many ideas have you rejected this week? It’s tough to keep track given the velocity they come at us. (Heck, we get bombarded with 34 gigabytes of information including 100,000 words a day, not to mention what we think up for ourselves.) As children most of us were thoroughly trained to censor our thoughts [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Management’
Being and Entrepreneurship
“Organizations tend to evolve in ways that are inherently resistant to entrepreneurship. Yet Entrepreneurship is instrumental for ensuring the long-term sustainability of any enterprise.” (Properties of balance: A pendulum effect in corporate entrepreneurship, Michael H. Morris, Jurie van Vuuren, Jeffrey R. Cornwall, Retha Scheepers) Whether you call it corporate entrepreneurship or individual creativity, it is [...]
Non-Competes, Health Insurance and Other Ugly Limits To Innovation
Limits and creativity run in the same circles. Desire to dig under, work around, leap over and push through is strong motivation to think anew. However, there are limits, that — hmm, — limit. Did you know that a major difference between moribund Detroit and high flyin’ Silicon Valley is the difference in how non-compete [...]
3 Kinds Of Companies Trying To Survive and Thrive.
The sands are shifting and organizations are having to change. There are 3 ways in which companies are using their employees to do this. Companies that have talented employees who see the difficult and innovative paths that must be taken – and are listening to them. Companies that have talented employees who see the difficult [...]
A Reminder Of Key Principles | Inside Drucker’s Brain
I’ve read a lot of Peter F. Drucker over the years, so it’s nice to find a great distillation of his ideas in one place. Just finished Inside Drucker’s Brain by Jeffrey A. Krames and it is full of gems to remind us of Drucker’s no nonsense style. For business wonks who have never read [...]
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