When you are managing teams for innovation, everyone focuses on creating better and better solutions. Otherwise, you reinforce stasis, or reliance on whatever worked yesterday. The concept and execution of managing for innovation is a hot topic in my keynotes, workshops and coaching. First, by focusing on innovation you and your team create outcomes which… [Continue Reading]
Are You Managing Teams for Innovation or Stasis?
Who Are Your Business Case Heroes And Heroines?
Who are the business case heroes and heroines you leverage when working with colleagues and clients? Consider that every business case you create includes a cast of characters you either include or exclude. Possibly because you never even considered these people as part of your story. Or, if there is going to be a hero… [Continue Reading]
Why hide the Authentic You from Your Professional Stories?
When your Authentic You is not part of the professional stories you tell, your stories are less-than-believable. As a result, the folks listening to your stories are left with no conclusion and one question: SO WHAT? Because instead of authenticity, you tell: Products and services, features and benefits stories. You tell traditional-sounding, buying-and-selling or STEM-based… [Continue Reading]
What is Next for Your 2020 Storytelling Strategy?
Your 2020 storytelling strategy offers three choices. Either you choose to: Play it safe. Tell a complacent, risk-free story. And continue to provide products and services which have sold in the past, using your original skill sets and tool kits, doing things exactly the way you originally learned to do them: Yesterday; or Make a… [Continue Reading]
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