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Leadership · 2010
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Where's the growth? 2011 and beyond......!
One of the highlights of 2010 had to be the day that I was the opening speaker for the 94th Annual General Meeting of the PGA - Professional Golfers Association of America. It was…
How to battle organizational sclerosis!
A few years ago, when I was the closing speaker for the Swiss Innovation Forum in Zurich, I made the observation that many "organizations fail because they have failure ingrained…
How small is your world? Why thinking BIG could save you in the 21st century economy!
We are in the era of big thinking, yet a lot of people have a small outlook. Consider what leading edge innovation organizations are doing today; they're prepared to: make big…
What the heck are you waiting for?
When you are on stage in front of several hundred people, you've got to be prepared to be interactive and open to insight. That's why I regularly use a text message polling tool…
Video - Breakthrough results in recessionary times!
A quick video on innovation: how do you achieve breakthrough results?
Graduation time!
This weekend marks an interesting chapter -- I'll be graduating on Sunday! It's been quite a long time since my last official graduation ceremony -- some 30+ years ago. When I…
"You can't be a futurist and a pessimist!"
Yesterday I spoke to several thousand people as the closing keynote speaker for the 2010 Fresh Summit for the Produce Marketing Association in Orlando. I focused on several…
Healthcare 2020: The Transformative Trends That Will REALLY Define Our Future
A new keynote topic was put to my many speakers bureaus partners today, based on some of the recent work that I've been doing. Grab the PDF by clicking on the image on the right!…
Utah League of Cities & Towns, Salt Lake City : Driving the Future of Economic Development
What do you get when you bring 700 mayors and elected officials for small, medium and large sized towns from the State of Utah into a room for a talk about the future? My main…
The Masters in Business Imagination Degree!
With a lot of university graduations and commencements, it might be a good moment and pause to think about a degree that colleges and universities should be offering their…
Video : What do innovative organizations do?
What do innovative organizations do? They re-orient themselves for an economy in which their ability to react to fast paced change will increasingly define their success. In this…
"Whoah, dude, what happened?"
Are you surrounded by people who simply don't "get it?" Who are oblivious, blind, completely unaware of just how much business model change is occurring out there? Here's the…
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