Tag: What Matters Now

Innovation, Innovation Everywhere – and Not a Drop to Drink in so many companies/organizations

The jury came in long ago.  No change, no innovation = real trouble for any and every organization. From Gary Hamel, What Matters Now (notice the subtitle:  How to win in a world of relentless change, ferocious competition, and unstoppable innovation): Innovation isn’t a fad—it’s the real deal, the only deal. Right now, not everyone… Read More Innovation, Innovation Everywhere – and Not a Drop to Drink in so many companies/organizations

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Trading Places, and Today’s News – Some Saturday Musings about Values, Morals, Ethics

News item: Dallas Police Department fires three officers: Dallas Police Chief David Brown fired three officers Friday in cases involving alleged substance abuse, including one who police say drove while drunk and fired a weapon out of his car and another found to have misused prescription drugs. News Item: Parkland Memorial Hospital fired a social… Read More Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Trading Places, and Today’s News – Some Saturday Musings about Values, Morals, Ethics

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Two Questions for your Next Team Meeting – Where are we missing it? Where are we hitting it?

…successful products and strategies are quickly copied. Without relentless innovation, success is fleeting. …there’s not one company in a hundred that has made innovation everyone’s job, every day. 
In most organizations, innovation still happens “despite the system” rather than because of it.
…innovation is the only sustainable strategy for creating long-term value. Gary Hamel, What Matters… Read More Two Questions for your Next Team Meeting – Where are we missing it? Where are we hitting it?

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Four Questions – My Takeaways from the book What Matters Now by Gary Hamel

I have now presented my 15 minute version of Gary Hamel’s new book, What Matters Now:  How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation at yesterday morning’s First Friday book Synopsis.  I look forward to one of my longer sessions with this book, where I can spend quite a… Read More Four Questions – My Takeaways from the book What Matters Now by Gary Hamel

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The Five Things that Matter Now (Gary Hamel, What Matters Now)

Tomorrow, we begin our 15th year of the First Friday Book Synopsis! Tomorrow at the April First Friday Book Synopsis, I will present my synopsis of What Matters Now:  How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation by Gary Hamel,  This is the second book I have presented by Hamel,… Read More The Five Things that Matter Now (Gary Hamel, What Matters Now)

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Your Organization Is Values Driven – The Question Is, “What Are The Values?” (insight from Gary Hamel)

By definition, every organization is “values driven.” The only question is, what values are in the driver’s seat? Gary Hamel, What Matters Now ————— Gary Hamel, in his newest book What Matters Now:  How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation (the subtitle wears me out, thinking about all… Read More Your Organization Is Values Driven – The Question Is, “What Are The Values?” (insight from Gary Hamel)

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What are your Organizational Habits? – (Insight from Duhigg and Hamel)

I am presenting two new business books to different groups this week.  One, What Matters Now by Gary Hamel, at the First Friday Book Synopsis.  The other, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, to a private client (I will present it this summer at the First Friday Book Synopsis).  These books agree in a… Read More What are your Organizational Habits? – (Insight from Duhigg and Hamel)

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