“I am not a __________________” “I don’t know how to do _______” “We can’t do__________________” Listen around you. You can hear these statements coming out of mouths old and young. I think it is a shame. People...
I often start and end an innovation workshop with a personal “weather report”. What are you? Sunny? Cloudy? Stormy? Breezy? It is a simple way to understand how people are arriving to that moment or how they are leaving. A couple of metaphorical words...
Visualizing is so important to innovation. Yet, we often spend our innovation energies verbalizing. There is real power is getting out our heads and into our hands. Even a simple, “absent minded” task like doodling can make a positive impact. According...
In an interesting article in today’s WSJ Drug Manufacturers bemoan the consumer engagement via social media during clinical trials and only see the down side of perhaps impacting the trial purity or causing some discovery that might increase scrutiny. I read the...
When you think of a leader what comes to mind? Decisive. Male. In charge. Intimidating. Visionary. In control. Ambitious. Driven. Productive. Efficient. Knowledgable. Analytic. These qualities of leadership that have historically served us in our industrial revolution...
