Tag: Change

Business focus & execution through skiing and mountain biking

For couple of weeks ago I participated on a mindfulness workshop. In one exercise we cleaned our state of mind from all disturbing thoughts blocking us to concentrate on the current. I was thrilled and very energized - ready to create a new winning business plan and start executing it without any doubt. How did I get there? Mindfulness or being mindful is often described a (...)

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Greatest risk is to play always safe

Let us imagine a company that has reached a status of market leadership through its innovative products and services. The road to the leading position may well have been a tough fight against the competition. Innovation work has been successful, and a great deal of the new stuff has been radical: Many products have been something completely new to the market. Through (...)

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Greatest risk is to play always safe

Let us imagine a company that has reached a status of market leadership through its innovative products and services. The road to the leading position may well have been a tough fight against the competition. Innovation work has been successful, and a great deal of the new stuff has been radical: Many products have been something completely new to the market. Through (...)

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From perfect to remarkable

Each company and every product is going to lose the interest of the consumers at some point of time. What is cool, trendy and interesting to consumers today will not be in few years anymore. When is then the right time to think about the future products? The answer is: yesterday, today and tomorrow - all the time. So, why not deciding to start thriving your business toward (...)

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Nudist Camp of Thinking

Corporate innovation is often limited by unconscious preconditions we bring to the sessions. Our thinking and creativity is limited by our own approach to what we expect we are supposed to do in the company as well as by what we suspect the company is all about. We cannot change the whole company, its vision and strategy, in the brainstorming. But if we are unable to break the (...)

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The greatest innovation inhibitor

We've been recently looking at Nokia's struggle in changing their strategy and finding new alliance to compete in a changed environment. There are quite a few examples of companies that have been very successful in the past and are now struggling with their business. Some say it is just a normal cyclic nature of business and that's how life works. They conclude that nothing rem (...)

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Do you want your product to be unique and cool?

There are plenty of research available which claims that about 90% of the thinking of 5-6 years old children is creative. This includes creativity itself, alternative thinking and surprising ideas. The picture changes a bit when they get older. Namely the creativity of 9 years old children has decreased to 20%. When we reach 40 years of age, only 1% of our thoughts are creative (...)

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Strawberries and Champagne

(At least) Two strategy approaches are at the moment very much affecting the business life: sense of urgency vs. Blue Ocean THE strategy guru everybody refers to is John Kotter. Especially his 8-Step Change Model has become the mantra of change management. The first step is to create Sense of Urgency. That's basically what you usually hear, like just recently when Nok (...)

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Making sense of Change

  Could you bring us some snow for the winter here? Our 6-year old asked me "why did we have to move to France from Finland?" The first good thing: As a working, traveling dad it's a big win to be there, to be present enough to get that question, instead of Mom or the au-pair getting to deal with it.   I answered that the purp (...)

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Thoughts about social media and participative leadership

I am convinced that social media is here to stay and has an effect to the way you do business. You cannot stop it and actually you should not try stop it. The word of mouth, good and bad, will spread. Timing is becoming crucial. Even more crucial it used to be. One day in internet and especially the social media is an eternity. Let's assume you have a problem with (...)

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Innovation is dead

Innovation hits the company The bosses have met consultants that have sold them the idea of creating more value by being innovative. Then starts a time taking and money spending effort of creating processes, buying software and doing internal trainings. In most of the cases all of this is confronted by the workers with a yawn and fatigue. "When does this stop so that (...)

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Getting change – on three levels.

You have to get it. To want change you have to want it, feel the need for it, understand Why the New and Why Not the Old. (...)

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Removing the mysticism around Innovation

In many organization, Innovation as a word is familiar from press releases and CEO reviews only - something that you have to be at least a Vice President to be able to talk about. (...)

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Interesting documents

Please post here documents of generic interest to the group (not work in progress, not aimed specifically at one of the workshops) (...)

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World Class Change Concept

We started a journey to find out: "How to make change happen in organization?" Of course there is no final solution to this, but we feel that we can always find a better way. Especially we are interested how people commit them selves into new way to act in organization in context like strategy deployment, leadership development, process improvement or innovation. (...)

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About Learning in Practice

Developing Observations (...)

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Change management is a two way avenue

Change process is the combination of management and leadership (...)

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Leading by laughing

Serious laughter makes for happy change (...)

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Cultural clashes

Sitting in the airport of Stockholm I found myself thinking about what a waste focusing on cultural differences can be! Now, let's be clear: Finns and Swedes are genuinely very different. They mostly speak different languages, often behave differently in meetings, prepare decisions differently and so on. But, on my way to Paris I also knew that when you look at Finns and Swede (...)

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Future Leaders by Marshall Goldsmith

A view on future leaders by one of the great top-management coaches and thinkers of today. (...)

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Inspiration = Leadership Balls on Fire

It is said that you are a leader only if others follow. How can you create this kind of positive bias? People don't want to follow negative or non-genuine people around... (...)

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Organizational Rhythm in Change

Why so many managers are saying: "Our speed in change implementation is far to low" and on the other hand so many people working in those very same organization are complaining: "We have too many and too fast changes in our work". (...)

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A Fair change manager

John felt he was treated unfairly. He did not get the challenging job that he, in his own mind, thought belonged to him. His boss was not “a fair guy” in this matter. John believed he was the best man for this particular job, and it was also the work he wanted to do. This sense of unfairness did not ease, so John, in his annoyance, expressed his feelings to a couple of his frie (...)

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Travelling light

How many of us carry with us unneeded things both on a physical and on a mental level? On the physical level we use for instance 20% of our clothes for 80% of time. Is that hard to belive? Try it out and see - and be honest, don´t start using that sweater that you haven´t used for ages... (...)

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