Meetings Don't Create Momentum. Decisions Do.

Discuss. Review. Revise. Circle back. Another meeting. Sound familiar? Decisions, not discussions, are what actually move things forward. That's one of the sharper…

Mediocrity

From the Stage: What This Series Is About

For more than 30 years I've stood on stages around the world with the same message. Here it is, compressed into a couple of minutes: "The challenges are vast, the trends…

Leadership · Videos

Be Curious. Full Stop.

Every interesting career I have studied started with someone asking an inconvenient question. Curiosity is not a personality trait, it is a discipline. It's one of the…

Being Unique

Make "Good Enough" the Enemy

Comfort today, regret tomorrow. "Good enough" is a trap dressed up as a compliment. Two new companion books put thirty years of insight into what makes innovative teams…

Mediocrity

From the Stage: Remember the Maytag Repairman?

Remember the old TV ads about the loneliest man in the world? The Maytag repairman never had anything to do because Maytags never broke. On stage I used him to explain…

Innovation · Manufacturing & Industrial