The 50 Most Innovative Companies
April 19, 2010
For the first time since Bloomberg BusinessWeek began its annual Most Innovative Companies ranking in 2005, the majority of corporations in the Top 25 are based outside the U.S. The reason: the new global leaders coming out of Asia Read more Read More →
Failure To Launch: Leadership Vacuums and Overcoming Barriers to Innovation
April 16, 2010
You want to innovate. You want your company and people to embrace new ideas, get ahead of the curve – and competition. You want to be progressive, thoughtful and creative. But you’re stymied by barriers to innovation that get in the way. They bog down your team, repel creativity and leave the organization wanting for more. Projects can’t get started. Initiatives don’t leave the gate. There’s a general failure to launch. For some organizations, innovation is the much sought-after... Read more »
The Paradox of Open Innovation: Internal or External?
April 2, 2010
What came first, the chicken or the egg? This paradox has perplexed philosophers for millennia. In the progressive workplace, a similar dilemma confounds executives. In the pursuit of open innovation, what comes first: Innovation created internally, or innovation developed beyond the organization? People talk about open innovation. It’s the mantra of leadership experts and workplace counselors across the business landscape. But internal versus external innovation also presents a dichotomy. Often conflicting... Read more »
Google’s magic motivation juice?
April 1, 2010
What moves employees to invest more emotional spirit into their jobs — and their organizations? Is it possible for leaders to “motivate” innovation? Do bigger monetary rewards drive people to ratchet up their output? These are hotly debated questions that have kept industrial psychologists, motivational speakers and perplexed CEOs busy for years. The debate recently was turned up a notch with the release of author Dan Pink’s new book, Drive, where he writes about the incentives that... Read more »
Innovation Evolution
