Business Innovation & Networking Blog
Continuous Change Management: Get Back to the Drawing Board
Last year you grabbed the bull by the horns and made some much needed changes to your business model. Right now, your product is selling well, your people are all aligned and happy, your bank is happy and most of all, you should be happy too. Time to sit back and...
Innovation Communication Strategy: What to Do if Your Team is Stuck in a Rut
One of the biggest challenges when it comes to creating a culture of innovation within a given organization is creating an environment that encourages a flow of creativity. The need for continual change management grows ever stronger in the face of competition, and...
Employee Engagement: “Start from where you are, use what you have and do what you can” – Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)
“Start from where you are, use what you have and do what you can” – Arthur Ashe (1943-1993). How poignant are these simple little words? Everything we do makes a difference in something or someone. We like to think that, when it comes to business innovation, employee...
Business Innovation: Will Your ‘Outside the Box’ Idea Truly Works? You Need to Blow Up the Box!
Often when it comes to business innovation, the go-to phrase seems to be thinking outside the box. Even though it is the box that may be keeping us all grounded, it really is that box that is preventing us from soaring. Using the excuse that change only works to cause...
The 90% Rule: Ken Tencer’s Advice to Canadian Entrepreneurs
I had coffee the other day with Ken Tencer, author of The 90% Rule – What’s Your Next Big Opportunity and Cause a Disturbance. We got chatting about the advice he gives to Canadian Entrepreneurs and we got on the topic of his recent article in The Globe and Mail,...
The Habits of a Highly Effective CEO
We’ve all heard them before, that ever elusive yet seemingly ever-present list of common characteristics of an effective CEO. And sure, maybe some of those things on that list are traits that you subscribe to on a regular basis. Many may not seem like...
Ah Yes… The Corporate Culture of Innovation
As an organization dedicated to helping others develop and implement business innovation, we routinely hear that change is so much easier said than done. And we can appreciate that – change is often difficult, from the beginning stages of identifying an issue to the...
What Do You Mean Leadership Isn’t Sexy? The Truth Behind Effective Leadership
Leadership often comes with an already well-established and respected reputation, and often for good reason, but those of us in leadership positions, whatever they might be, know that that reputation is often accompanied by a set of assumptions that are not...
Keep Calm and Just Do It – Keeping the Workplace Environment Positive
The issue of workplace contentment has become central to many management discussions over the last few years. Following a period of economic recession, the job market has bounced back, meaning more jobs for fewer people. If the predictions are correct, and there’s no...
Presenting New Ideas: Does Your Communication Strategy Work?
There is a lot to be said for being prepared, and how you present new ideas to those who will be directly impacted by them can often mean the difference between acceptance and rejection. Any intelligent and effective communication strategy needs to take the...
