To Create Innovation, Avoid the Shiny Object Syndrome
We are all attracted to the new. But is your innovation lasting or is just bright and shiny?
Lessons Learned from a Year of Innovating
2016 was a year of disruption, change and innovation. What have we learned?
Saying Yes to High Visibility Projects – Five Steps to Visible Success
No matter whether you are just starting out in your career or about to retire, saying “yes” to high visibility projects should be at the top of your list of priorities.
Innovating Across Three Horizons
I will be the first to admit that numbers matter. It matters that you set them, pursue them and achieve them. As leaders, we need to be across the numbers - from revenue targets to cost centers, investments to acquisitions, and everything in between. But not all...
Innovation – It’s Like Juggling Chainsaws
Leaders struggle to balance the competing needs of near term and longer term objectives. But it doesn’t have to be that way. By taking a structured approach to innovation we can learn to balance new innovation alongside our existing businesses.
Come Drive with Me
Today I walked out of the office and into the fresh air. I stopped, looked across the parking lot, looked to the sky and began to walk. I took my time. I took long, deep breaths and felt the clear, unfiltered air filling my body. My head cleared and I scanned the...
Three Degrees of Separation and the Compassionate Leader
The compassionate leaders understand that, more than ever, we are more closely connected to each other in the workplace and beyond.
Culture Beyond Equality
There has been much public focus and attention on the subject of equal pay – but in the seven years since the passing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, little has changed. Equality is a goal worth striving for – but the culture of business needs work before we can see more significant gains made.
2016 – The Year of Conscious Innovation
Often when we think of innovation, we call to mind those projects that fly below the radar within the enterprise, only to surface at some point to loud applause, fully formed and functioning. These are the make or break innovations that change companies or industries....
The Five Principles of Lean Leadership
Where the lean startup approach focuses on ideas, coding and data, lean leadership sets the conditions for maximum acceleration. But what of leaders and leadership? Here are five principles for the lean leader.
For the Innovation Leader, It’s Time to Get Social
If innovation is in your job title, then it’s time to get social – even for the most skeptical of leaders.
Accelerating the Speed of Innovation
Innovation is notoriously hard work – yet we cannot ignore the change that is taking place in and outside of our businesses. Leaders must face the challenge head on
Do Women in Leadership Offer More Opportunities for their Female Employees?
Do women in leadership pave the way for other women? Or is the opposite true?
Leveraging Female Talent to Drive Innovation
One of the most significant factors limiting the growth potential of countries around the world is the fundamental participation and engagement of women in their workforce. The second annual research study by Mercer on gender diversity in the workplace suggests that...
Women in Leadership: Raji Kumar and the Dallas Medical Center Turnaround
When it comes to women in leadership, there are many cases where women show unique and valuable leadership styles based in both their gender and cultural identities.
The Four Styles of Mentoring
People often picture a mentor as someone older or at least someone who has been in a particular business for a long time, but mentoring is not always about age or the number of years of experience a particular person has in a certain field. Instead, mentoring is about...
Five Steps to Building a Responsive Organization
Transforming a business is hard work. It requires a vision and a program. It means shifting and reallocating resources. It’s about asking hard questions and listening to the equally hard answers. Transformation is both strategic and tactical – and for many...
Great Tech Doesn’t Guarantee Innovation
Throughout my career I have seen some amazing technology come to life. I have been fortunate enough to have worked with some of the great business leaders of the 20th and 21st Centuries, witnessed their creativity and ingenuity first hand, and watched as those...
Take Steps to Crack the Glass Ceiling
We still have some way to go before we can honestly claim to have shattered the glass ceiling. That invisible barrier between minorities and women that prevents access to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder still requires our attention and action. The Economist’s...
New Horizons
This week I start in a new role as Chief Product Officer, leading global product and commercialization strategy for NTT Innovation Institute (NTT i3). NTT i3 is the Silicon Valley-based open innovation and applied research and development center of NTT Group. I will...