Leading a Culture of Innovation

Leading a Culture of Innovation

A CEO met with her senior staff and posed a typical CEO question: “What strategies and tactics would you recommend if we needed to increase our productivity by 10%?” Her executives quickly outlined belt-tightening steps and “do more with less” recommendations. Then...
Your Customers’ Visions of Sugar Plums

Your Customers’ Visions of Sugar Plums

It is the holiday day season–a time of joy, giving and celebrating. People decorate their homes, send out cards, cook amazing delicacies, and spend timing thinking about the perfect present for those on their list. Parties punctuate the community; neighbors give...
How To Foster Innovation

How To Foster Innovation

It happened while driving over the Savannah River Bridge between Aiken, SC and Augusta, GA.  Our one-year old son was seated in the backseat looking out of the car window.  Without warning he pointed at the river and said, “water!”  He had been mimicking words…dada,...
Innovative Leaders Leave the Door Open

Innovative Leaders Leave the Door Open

Watership Down is Richard Adams’ best-selling novel about a group of wild rabbits forced to abandon their warren and travel across England in search of a new home. Along their journey they encounter a group of caged rabbits–pets of a young boy. Opening the cage...