Personality Conflicts: Expectations Drive Perceptions
Everyday we work, meet and interact with people inside (and outside) our organizations. We become accustomed to our colleagues and peers and their behaviors: What they have done in the past is what we expect them to continue to do. Truthfully, we seldom change our expectations and consequently, our perceptions of the behaviors, motivations and capabilities of those we...
Read MoreBorn to Run, Born to Innovate, Learn to Walk First
It would be nice if the capacity to innovate came with the inception of the organization, if it could be encoded in the genetic material of the building blocks of the components you assemble. Wouldn’t it be nice if it were as simple as, well, walking? But wait: walking is something that we learn; we aren’t born walking, so the organization that isn’t created “innovative” can learn just...
Read MoreTime Out for Innovation
One of the biggest mistakes businesses—or any organization today—make is a failure to allow time for working on the business itself. Current business practices have created a mindset that has every worker (theoretically at least) working every moment in the business on the day-to-day tasks of the activities of what the business is currently engaged in. If you think about it, even the...
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