How to Inspire Innovation By Making a Personal Connection

#innovationmandate[spacer height=”20px”] Ask the typical CEO if he or she is connected to the company’s top stakeholders—the executives, board members, big shareholders, and vendors—and they’re likely to reply, “Of course I’m connected to them! What a ridiculous question!” When you probe a little deeper, you may hear these additional explanations: “I have an open door […]

Innovation Leaders: Where Do You Fit In?

#innovationmandate We don’t make mistakes. We just have happy accidents – Bob Ross Not everyone who innovates—and makes a difference to peoples’ lives—is an entrepreneur or chief innovation officer of a high-tech company. Here’s a true story that showed me just one of the many aspects of human innovation. Once I was on vacation with […]