Do We Need a Process for Innovation

This weeks Podcast guest is David Hamme. David enjoys helping leaders uncover opportunities, examine problems from new angles, and executing the plan to bring them to fruition. His goal is to make your life easier and supercharge your performance.  His recent book, Customer Focused Process Innovation: Linking Strategic Intent to Everyday Execution is compilation of Read More …

Question Transformation

Roger Schank wrote a book, The Creative Attitude: Learning to Ask and Answer the Right Questions: a few years ago that still is one of the better books that I have found on asking the right questions. From an Amazon review, “He describes how we think unconsciously using scripts. It is when this script fails do Read More …

We have 60,000 Thoughts a Day, 80% Negative – How to Change

I had Silva Instructor, Majorie Dearmont on a past podcast and thought I would share a few of her thoughts while Mindvalley is offering a Black Friday deal. Over $1000 savings ends Friday night, at midnight.  Your last chance to grab this Black Friday deal Related Podcast and Transcription: The Silva Method Joe: Can you Read More …

Share a Vision, Create a Sale

Think of all the things we need to deal with in sales: Present and future priorities Problems and Needs Gains and Opportunities Relationships and Influencers Technical Opinions People and Resources Money and Budget allocations Upcoming Schedules This list is just the tip of the iceberg, and all these are continuously changing. Salespeople have to be Read More …

Masters on Zero to One

The book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, presents a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places. From the book: The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Read More …

Understanding Your Team Before Innovating For Others

 Barbara Spurrier MHA, the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation founding and current administrative director,  was a guest last week on the Business901 podcast.  She just recently co-authored an outstanding book on innovation, Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: A Blueprint for Transformation from the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation and I found one of the Read More …