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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases In the modern business landscape, we often hear the argument that leaders should be hired from within the same industry to be effective. Here, we make a case for the top five universal leadership skills, which are, arguably, more critical than industry-specific experience.

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Organizational Design: Clearing the Runway for Collaboration and Breakthrough Thinking

Innovation Excellence

Organizational Design: Clearing the Runway for Collaboration and Breakthrough Thinking. In 2012, Google launched Project Aristotle to uncover what makes a perfect team. Rather, people tend to confuse shared governance for participatory leadership. Transfer of information between teams in a participatory leadership model.

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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012.

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We are falling badly behind on our invention in technology for the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

I provide different perspectives and thinking, firstly on my innovating4energy.website for my offerings of service and a dedicated posting site for energy, innovating4energy.com that provides a decent mix of thought leadership, news and awareness, for the Energy Transition. Let me briefly reference different sections of the IEA website.

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Collaborative Contracts and Competitive Bidding: Not Mutually Exclusive!

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Can collaboration and competition co-exist to create the best contract bidding relationships? In 2012, University of Tennessee researchers began studying how organizations use competitive bidding methods. The short answer is yes. Their findings?

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

One of the implications is this growing recognition that innovation is rarely succeeding in isolation but it is growing on a more highly dependent type of complementary innovation, a collaborative network, working around this new emerging innovation to deliver a more connected, radical experience, requiring innovation ecosystem management.

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We are falling badly behind on our invention in technology for the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

I provide different perspectives and thinking, firstly on my innovating4energy.website for my offerings of service and a dedicated posting site for energy, innovating4energy.com that provides a decent mix of thought leadership, news and awareness, for the Energy Transition. Let me briefly reference different sections of the IEA website.