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Leadership & Disruption · 2007
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What Comes Next? An Outlook into 2008 and Beyond
As we end the year and start a new one, it's a good time to be thinking about some of the trends and issues which will impact us in the future. Take a look at my newly released…
Making generations work - Cardboard people and plasma people
Can you innovate across the generations? If you can't -- then you've got a big problem to fix! I do a tremendous number of keynotes that focus on the issue of "managing…
Future trend - The Future of Governance
I was in Colorado Springs yesterday, as the opening keynote of the Leadership Institute for Directors for FCCServices -- they're the business services arm of the US federal Farm…
New book release: Ready, Set, Done: How To Innovate When Faster is the New Fast
My new book, Ready, Set, Done: How To Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, is now available in print. You can purchase it directly through this site, with immediate shipping. In…
The future of the legal profession
Some weeks back, I spent a full day with about 40 senior lawyers with a major government agency, with the main focus both on the rapidity of change of legal skills, as well as…
Innovation - agility is critical
I often talk on stage to my clients about the concept of organizational agility: that is, the ability to respond to fast-changing circumstances. In the high velocity economy…
10 Truths about the Future
In my keynotes, I often talk about how the rate of change -- whether with business models, product lifecycles, skills and knowledge -- is speeding up. With such change, there's a…
High velocity retail innovation
Back in October 2005, I identified the major trends that would sweep the retail and consumer products industries, and some of the key innovation methods that organizations should…
The Future of Risk: Achieving Skills Agility in the High Velocity Economy
Back to work, and I'm off to San Antonio, Texas, to keynote the Property and Casualty Insurers Association of America Joint Underwriting/Marketing conference. I'll be speaking to…
Instilling innovation with the "trends and innovation feedback loop"
In the world of high-velocity change, how could you go about actually keeping on top of all the trends that might impact your business models, customers, distribution channels…
Velocity, Agility, Complexity, and Flexibility......
I'm doing a private conference call today with more than a hundred executives in the life sciences industry, on behalf of my client, SAP. The theme, "Velocity, Agility…
Innovation comes from flexibility, extensibility, agility...
In the high velocity economy, you've got to be able to design for a future in which all assumptions will constantly change! In this clip from a keynote to a group of global media…
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