Interdependence and leadership
Today’s New York Times headline reads, “Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization - Cheap oil, the lubricant of inexpensive transportation links, may not return soon, upsetting the logic of diffuse global supply chains”. In a number of other recent articles I am reminded that the demand for food in certain parts of the world is [...]
Are You Experienced…
…have you ever been experienced?
There’s been a lot of discussion over recent years as to the notion that the nature of the U.S. economy is transforming (yet again) from that of being primarily a service economy into an experience economy. This theory was first laid out by Pine and Gilmore in their book, “The Experience [...]
Business is the flow of energy
In a meeting yesterday I was explaining to the VP of Product Development of a $200 million locally headquarted business the underlying concept of the Quantum Leaders’ model of the 21st century business. And it dawned on me that I don’t often share the underlying precept - business is all about the flow of energy.
Let’s [...]
Profit as a metric of the spirtual journy
In my last post I talked about the importance for the CEO and the board to increase the value of the firm, and that this should be a key focus of their responsibilities. I also state that the focus on value creation is perfectly consistent with the idea that business is a spiritual journey.
Value [...]
Why do companies wait
Ever wonder why companies wait for a crisis to take action they should be taking all along. A headline in today’s NACD Directors Daily reads “Anheuser-Busch announces cost savings to boost value in face of InBev bid”. and goeas on to say “the New York Times /AP (6/28, C4, Andersen) reported that on [...]
What is a Soulful Purpose?
In my last blog I referred to Idris Mootee’s blog post where he also represents the importance of a corporation’s purpose as key to strategy. No I would like to expand on that and explain why I call it the corporation’s Soulful Purpose.
A corporation is not just a collection of equipment worked on by [...]
Strategy needs a purpose
There is a wonderful blog post by Idris Mootee that I just recently read that I would like to recommend to everyone. (http://mootee.typepad.com/innovation_playground/2008/05/what-do-you-know-about-business-strategy.html) .
I would like to reprint a portion of his post because I feel it was so eloquently stated.
“Purpose is really the heart of any business strategy and should provide the guiding [...]
Is Stage-Gate a Barrier to Innovation?
In a recent, thought-provoking posting on his excellent Innovation Playground blog, Idris Mootee posits that the traditional product development stage-gate framework is a barrier to innovation.
The following is my comment posted to his blog:
Idris:
When I first read the title of this post, the “old school product manager” in me reacted viscerally. Then when I read [...]
Leadership: The Philosopher’s Stone of Innovation…? (Part 2)
The other end of the spectrum re strategic decision-making is where it is totally driven by the leadership of the company. This is very often the case with start-up, early-stage and founder-run, privately held firms. The potential advantages are somewhat obvious: strategy is driven by a focused vision, factors which may not be effectively quantifiable [...]
Leadership: The Philosopher’s Stone of Innovation…? (Part 1)
I had the opportunity to speak before the Association for Strategic Planning this week on the topic of Innovation - an inherently rather broad and deep subject, so my approach was one of surveying the various paradigms of innovation (creativity/ideation, invention, implementation, value-creation, etc.), and that all of these conceptual frameworks for understanding [...]