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Of all of the people talking or writing about the future of business right now, no one has more street cred than Gary Hamel. I've written about him many times before, and his book The Future of Management is one of the most inspiring and meaningful business books
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Grasshoppers have to let go of some old baggage. If we continue to battle 20th centuries bogeymen, we're going to lose 21st century opportunities.
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At New Kind, we believe that innovative organizations compete stronger when they have a mission. A real mission. Something you can understand. Something you can see. Hold onto. Bite into. Something you can join. This is the most important strategic question for innovative organizations— those whose
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In my day job at New Kind, I spend quite a bit of my time working on brand-related assignments, particularly for organizations interested in community-based approaches to building their brands.When marrying the art of community building to the art of brand building, it's hard not to talk
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Creative people are different. They insist upon being different. And business leaders who believe innovation is truly strategic might consider adjusting their own world view of creative workforces in order to gain a competitive advantage.
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This week I finally got a chance to sit down and digest IBM's latest Global CEO Study, newly published last month and entitled Capitalizing on Complexity. This marks the fourth study IBM has done (they complete them once every two years), and I've personally found them
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It might be a better world if we all worked in open, collaborative organizations where the best ideas win. But unfortunately, the reality is that bureaucracy still rules in all but the most progressive companies. We have a long way to go. The reality doesn’t always match the dream.
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The other day I was chatting with friend and digital strategy/social media expert Ken Burbary on the phone. He was advising a colleague on some good community-building techniques to consider when all of the sudden the following words came out:"You have to find your cheeseheads." What?
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Let's face it. There are tons of projects out there in the world being run the open source way today. While the great ones can accomplish unbelievable things, the bad ones, even the average ones, often fail to achieve their goals.In many cases, the failed projects still
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A few months ago, I had the opportunity to meet Jim Gilmore, co-author (with Joseph Pine) of the book Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want. I first read the book a few years ago, and it really struck a nerve for me—these guys were on to something.So I convinced
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Maps, plans and spreadsheets are only valuable when they are in service to people who have somewhere to go— not when those people are slaves to the plans. As we create organizational culture, we have to make sure that our work forces are prepared and comfortable looking up from their plans, evaluati
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What does the future hold for marketing and communications now that the Web has made such a mess of things?