Idea people gravitate toward all things new and have little patience for inefficient processes and corporate silos. They can live in any department at any level of any organization. They can be any age, any color, male or female. To you as a manager, they may represent a breath of fresh air in your department or a colossal thorn in your side. Regardless of how you feel, idea people may be the key to your organization’s future. The question is…how are you engaging them today?
What is your organization’s claim to fame—operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership? How are you doing in the other two areas? If your focus is customer intimacy, do the employees who personally excel at operational excellence and product leadership feel engaged or disenfranchised in your workplace?
Even with idea of collaborative leadership in “flat” organizations, many consider “leadership” as a permeating force that ebbs and flows in and over every nook and cranny of an organization. An example is when the end user is included in the development of the process and their voice actually has measurable value. Leadership taking on » Read More
Note: This post originally appeared on the N2Growth blog May 18 with the title The Leadership Vacuum, but we need to keep the dialogue going. The biggest problem with the leadership industry is found within the ranks of those who call themselves leadership advisors. There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being » Read More
I found this video embedded in a blog post by Jeremiah Owyang (follow @jowyang on Twitter) on his Web Strategy blog. Many people around the social and technological leading edge these days champion Best Buy for their grasp of the technologies and their application for innovation. Check out the video and my comments will be » Read More
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