How The Most Successful Leaders Manage The Brilliant Naysayer
May 15, 2013
Radio Interview
May 15, 2013
Last week, Mike spoke with Michael Stein on KWAM – AM990. You can listen by clicking on the microphone below:
What The Most Successful Leaders Know About Creating An Innovative Culture: A Case Study
May 7, 2013
Iron Man is a fictional superhero. A.G. Lafley, the former chairman and CEO of P&G, is a real one. He took a proverbial, slumbering consumer products giant and turned it into a company that delivered $100 million worth of new products to market, quarter after quarter after quarter. Many people attribute Lafley making open innovation [...]
The “You” Makeover
April 25, 2013
Based on how quickly the world is changing and the contributions she has made already to the topic, this is a reinvention we should all welcome.
Innovation For Dummies
April 19, 2013
Why Being Too Smart Isn’t Too Smart The infinitely quotable—and really smart—Albert Einstein once said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” So here’s a question for you: Are you smart enough to play dumb for awhile? With that question in mind, see if any of these [...]
Radio Interview
April 18, 2013
Mike will speek with Armstrong Williams and Logan Delany on April 3, 2013.
Why Growth Is So Hard And What To Do About It
April 8, 2013
There is a simple question that when deeply considered, can change your business instantly. It is a question that enormous companies usually get wrong and small companies often get right. It is a question central to many of the world’s most profound innovations. Give up? The question is this: “What business am I really in?” [...]
The Tax You Pay For A Bad Idea
March 19, 2013
If you work for a company that loves to tell the world—through its ads, marketing materials, email blasts and the like—how innovative it is, while all the while it’s losing market share, your organization is paying what can only be called “an innovation deficit tax.” Marketing and advertising are the tax—the financial penalty—you pay for [...]
How To Know Your Company Is (NOT) Ready To Innovate And What To Do About It
March 19, 2013
See if this sounds familiar to you: The CEO says, “We must become more innovative.” She hires or assigns a Chief Innovation Officer. An innovation task force is formed. The task force comes up with a really cool code name for itself, e.g., Project Blue Ocean. Secret meetings take place. There is excitement and murmuring [...]
Three Secrets to Reinventing Your Industry (Before Someone Else Does)
March 4, 2013
Pop quiz hot shot: What do NASA and Honey Boo Boo have in common? A lot, as it turns out.
The Idea Monkey Takes Wall Street
November 7, 2012
How you think about the future will make Wall Street love you or hate you.
