We had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Jane Stevenson, Vice Chairman, Board and CEO Services, Korn Ferry; and Bilal Kaafarani, Chief Innovation Officer and Group President for Yildez Holdings and Vice Chairman of Northstar Innovation, a new venture with Yildiz Holdings. They are co-authors of the book BREAKING AWAY: How Great Leaders Create Innovation that Drives Sustainable Growth–And Why Others Fail.
I had coffee with a clever marketing and sales consultant recently and one of the topics we discussed was the impact of location on a group's ability to innovate. At the time we spoke about getting people to think in new ways by getting people to think in ne ...
Singer-songwriter Cat Stevens said, “If you want to be free, be free, because there are a million things to be.” Stevens was right. The counterculture of the 60s was a time of divided opinions, environmentalism, legendary music, roads less travelled, an ...
America's Innovation economy is 6,000,000 jobs strong. That is one proof-point that we, TechNet, a national bi-partisan network of CEOs that promotes growth of technology industries (of which I am a member), have been personally giving to Congress and th ...
Social business, and its companion/forebear, Enterprise 2.0, have successfully penetrated the halls of organizations around the world. The adoption is far from complete, and the jobs-to-be-done by social business are evolving. But the trend lines point to co ...
Okay, so I’m writing to you from the Thai Airways lounge at Bangkok’s majestic new airport. I can report that this teeming city of 13 million has dug out from the recent floods, and is getting on with life. The economy, according to the cabbies and local ...