We’re in the age of the idea. The organizations that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners. Kevin Roberts, CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi Knowledge management is this year’s hot new idea. But what is it, how is it done, and what does it mean to me? Knowledge management may …
To invent or own our work (rather than see it as owned and created by their employer). To be self-initiating, self-correcting, self-evaluating (rather than dependent on others to frame problems, initiate adjustments, or determine whether things are going acceptably). To be guided by our own work visions (rather than be without a vision or be …
Steven Reiss, an Ohio State University, researcher says any one of these 15 desires can drive our behavior: Avoidance: Desire to avoid pain and anxiety. Citizenship: Desire for public service and social justice. Curiosity: Desire to learn and explore. Family: Desire to spend time with relatives. Food: Desire to eat. Honor: Desire to adhere to …
What does success have to do with smarts? I know middling intelligent people who’ve made it big. Some wrote best-selling mystery books, designed killer products, or sold real estate. Some of these folks seemed like they belonged in Densa not Mensa, the genius organization. Each Brand U has one or multiple core competencies or practices. …
There is a continuing dialog of what’s more critical to Brand U career success – people skills or technical skills. Recent Bell Lab studies indicate your emotional quotient, the EQ, is now as important to your long-term success as your IQ. IQ, the intelligence quotient, was once thought to be the key to career success. …
Interestingly, a Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAG) can be any of the 7Ps: Performance: Increase performance by 200 or over 1,000 percent. Lower costs by 50%. Halve time to market for developing products. Paradigms: Develop undreamed of products. Develop kickass, web business models. People: Energized Brand U’s create the killer category company or product. Increase …
BHAG – what a strange acronym? BHAGs (pronounced bee-hags) stand for Big Hairy Audacious Goals. Collins and Porras in Built to Last call super stretch performance goals BHAGs. Examples of BHAGs include IBM’s decision to build the 360 computer and Boeing’s decision to build the first jumbo jet, the 747. Both were outstandingly successful and …
“The chairman and chief executive of Union Carbide Corp., in an unusual move, bet on his company’s performance, agreed to forfeit a year’s salary if the chemicals company doesn’t meet its earnings target for the year 2000” according to a recent The Wall Street Journal article. [i] Would you put your salary at risk? Jack …
How fast is this occurring? The US technology sector is growing at a 40% annual clip. Computer power keeps increasing as the cost of computation falls. Every 18 months computing power doubles in speed or costs half as much. Organizations and people are more productive as the cost of computing power costs less. This is …
Think about the numbers in your life. Your PIN number, bank statements, bills, credit cards numbers, telephone numbers, frequent flier miles, and the list goes on. If you’re in doubt that you may become a number, check your business card and look at the numbers, your cell phone, home phone, business phone, fax phone, email, …