Category: Leadership
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Buyer Beware
By Tony Vengrove The CEOs said, “We must innovate or die,” but they didn’t know how to do it. So they brought in consultants to teach them how. The consultants sold them a process. The CEOs said, “The process is only kicking out average-at-best, incremental innovation.” “That’s because there’s not enough creativity,” the Consultants said.…
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Breaking the Addiction to Logic
By Tony Vengrove As companies pursue the holy grail of innovation they are essentially contracting to become more creative. However, most senior leaders lack experience with building or managing creative cultures—or employees, for that matter. In fact, most organizations are highly adept at implementing business processes and using logic to analyze business decisions. This leads…
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You’ve Proclaimed Creativity a Company Value, Now What?
By Tony Vengrove This post is adapted from an article originally published on Values Based Leader. “We have to innovate or die!” It seems every Chief Executive Officer has trumpeted a version of that tune in the last decade. It’s easy to stand before employees and confidently declare a commitment to innovate, until you realize…
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How To Stifle Innovation
By Tony Vengrove This post is an adaption of an article that originally appeared on Intrepid Now. I recently reacquainted myself with a great book, The Change Masters: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation, written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter in 1983. Given the prodigious rise of innovation, entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship in the past decade or…
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The Best of Lead with Giants – August 2015
There are some great reads in August’s edition of Best of Lead With Giants! This monthly compilation serves to advocate uplifting leadership and to change lives by showcasing the leadership wisdom of the Lead with Giants community. This month’s best of includes writing by, Jone Bosworth, Chery Gegelman, Ron McIntyre, Sarah Monahan, Dan Forbes, Linda Fisher Thornton, David…