Articles & Essays
The Math Nobody Explains When You’re Handed an Innovation Mandate
Click to watch (10:30) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions! Not long ago, I got on a call with a VP at a SaaS company. He hadn’t reached out about a keynote. He’d reached out because his CEO had handed him a job with no map attached: make this company more […]
Read MoreThe Innovation Mandate’s First 30 Days
Click to watch (10:16) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions! The Mandate Lands on a Tuesday Nobody hands you an innovation mandate with a start date that makes sense. It lands mid-quarter, in a meeting that was supposed to be about something else, usually as a single sentence: “We need your […]
Read MoreI Said No to What They Asked For
Click to watch (11:05) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions! A year ago, I got a call from the then-president of the PMI San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. She wasn’t calling about a keynote. She was calling because she’d been searching for a LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator, and my name had […]
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