Admiral McRaven’s speech from the 2014 University of Texas commencement is literally mind-blowing. I encourage you to watch if you have not seen it yet and even if you have it is worth watching again. [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/pxBQLFLei70″/]
In the System Thinking world, and I will primarily be leaning on the work of Pete Senge and Daniel Kim, there is this systemic process of five distinct levels of perspective: Vision (Generative) Mental Models (Reflective) Systemic Structure (Creative) Patterns (Adaptive) Events (Reactive) Book Reference: Organizing for Learning: Strategies for Knowledge Creation and Enduring Change Read More …
The general thinking around developing a value proposition is that we all gather in this room and create a wall of post-it-notes through a brainstorming exercise, and then we (sometimes) iterate through testing our value proposition with customers. I know that may be an oversimplification but in most of my experiences, it is not that Read More …
Making The Disney Way: Your Way Bill Capodagli has nearly three decades of management consulting and corporate research expertise. Bill co-authored the best-selling business book, The Disney Way, 3E: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company, now in its 3rd edition. The first edition was cited by Fortune magazine as “so useful you Read More …
How Good is Your Digital Footprint? Kristin Zhivago is president and co-founder of Cloud Potential LLC. They offer best-practice analysis and improvement of a company’s digital impact, mostly working with companies that have historically done well in their space but are now being surpassed – even blindsided – by those who operate at cloud speed and use Read More …
I get the feeling that you view an organization being very transparent and something that adds value not by adding value let’s say in the traditional Porter sense of building blocks and we add to this and put this together and everything, but more of something that attaches to things. Instead of building blocks, maybe Read More …