My latest Association Agenda article is online: “Many people seem to be driven by a rather simple outlook on life: whenever confronted with something new, they quickly respond that we can’t change things because “we’ve always done it that way.” Read it here. This directly relates to the workshops and keynotes I’ve been providing on
change and innovation.
How to think about innovation
My newsclipping picked up a great quote by Home Depot’s CEO: “The landscape is strewn with retailers who had a great business model and got locked into the past versus building off the past”
Innovation article : “…you’ve got to instill a sense of courage….”
The Globe & Mail today features my article that outlines how companies must get back into an innovative frame of mind. The article also provides my innovation-framework — a practical management method by which organizations can learn to harness and manage their internal innovation processes. You can read the article here. The article directly relates to the many workshops and keynotes that I’ve been providing organizations with respect to innovation, which you can read about here
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“What’s happening to our careers?”
The article I wrote for a variety of association executive publications throughout North America is getting quite a bit of attention; it examines how careers will evolve in the future as a result of the information explosion now occurring. Among the observations, the article notes that we wills witness :
- a change in the very nature of professional skills
- an increased need for “multi-skilling”
- greater demand for “just in time skills”
- a shift from tactical to strategic skills
The article also quotes an Australian report that suggests that “65% of the children who are in pre-school today will work in jobs and careers that have yet to be defined.”
It makes for compelling reading — find it here The article ties into the career planning workshops I’ve been providing to organizations eager to grapple with the complexities of change in the workplace.
“At least begin doing something”
“…are we now witnessing the death of IT innovation in business organizations? Have we seen the death of courage – the disappearance of the era in which people were willing to try something new with IT?” Read an article I wrote for clients of SAP, now being distributed to those who attended the SAP ’03 Business Forum. Read it here
Association related articles
I’ve been writing a bi-weekly column for executive directors of associations. The articles are being printed or are carried online by a number of North American Society of Association Executives. Permission is granted to any association to reprint these articles — contact me for details.
The first three include, “10 Things My Kids Think Are From the Olden Days“, “What’s happening to our careers?” and “What’s your tin can?”
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