Want to reinvent management? Start with the managers.

by Chris Grams August 30, 2010

Maybe some day we’ll look back on the role of the manager in our organizations and laugh.
Such a quaint trend. Kind of like having The Clapper in every room of your house, or wearing multiple Swatch watches, or working out to Richard Simmons videos. Each seemed really helpful at the time, but looking back, we [...]

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Five questions about open innovation with Stefan Lindegaard

by Chris Grams August 25, 2010

On Wednesday, September 1, opensource.com will be hosting a webcast with Stefan Lindegaard, one of the world’s leading experts on open innovation.
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Stefan is author of the recently published book The Open Innovation Revolution, and blogs regularly on 15inno.com and stefanlindegaard.com.
We see a lot of commonalities between [...]

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The King is dead; long live the king.

by David Burney August 5, 2010

My good friend and business partner, Chris Grams, writes that “formality in business is dying.” He isn’t referring to fashion or manners. Chris is referring to formal business practices such as the heavy emphasis on structure: the arranging of elements rather than content.
Amen, brother. And not a moment too soon.
Peter Drucker, the man who invented [...]

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