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CorporateIntel
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
If handled elegantly, the liberation of a life change can be an enormous expression of creativity and empowerment. Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace.
CorporateIntel
APRIL 26, 2021
You can live a relatively long time with just Air and Water, so you get to decide what constitutes Food and how to procure it creatively. There’s no time like the present to set goals. Here’s a framework I use for myself and those I manage or advise.
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CorporateIntel
DECEMBER 3, 2018
It’s called creative destruction. Brand Business Innovation Marketing Startups Amazon Apple Black Friday brand promise but we've always challenger brand creative destruction Cyber Monday death knell Ecommerce legacy brand reinvention Sears ShopTalk Thanksgiving Toys 'R' UsIt’s December.
CorporateIntel
JUNE 2, 2018
I wanted to explore the necessity of constantly starting over in life as a creative process. It all circles back to creative destruction. Books Business Creativity Literature Storytelling Writing classic rock corporate refugee cover band creative destruction From Nothing full magilla hard rock Iron Mike jukebox musical Quadrophenia song cycle soundtrack of our lives spoilers The Beatles The Story Plant The Who Victor Selo
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CorporateIntel
APRIL 9, 2018
” AOL actually didn’t do that—the internet itself obviated its driving purpose—but rather than build on the goodwill of its access brand and attempt to enhance the customer experience through creativity, the company sought to keep customers in a “ walled garden ” and intervene in easy access to the open internet. I used to like AOL. Back in the day we called it by its full name, America Online.
CorporateIntel
AUGUST 6, 2017
We talk about creativity and innovation, passion for excellence, dedication to the customer experience. Business Creativity Innovation Leadership Management authentic vision bad morale Battlefield promotions business model competitive advantage consistent execution customer experience demoralization employee engagement employee morale employee satisfaction executive management leadership talent mediocrity passion process product design product quality unicorns
CorporateIntel
AUGUST 2, 2016
It’s been an amazing journey, including creative development and four public readings of my stage adaptation. About three years ago I published my first novel, This Is Rage. Now we have something additionally exciting to announce: the first three episodes of a podcast adaptation. We made it easy for you to find either on iTunes or at the online home that saved Kimo Balthazer from irrelevance and started his movement: ThisIsRage.com. Who is Kimo Balthazer , you may be asking?
CorporateIntel
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
I have had the privilege to lead a handful of creative companies and I have had the privilege to be a published author. Business Creativity Innovation Achilles Heal Apple II crap filter demo day differentiating features incrementality lone wolf minimum viable product naysayers peanut gallery Snow White and the Seven Dwarves speechifying Steve Jobs Walt DisneyThere’s something about optimism.
CorporateIntel
APRIL 23, 2016
He wrote the legendary book Only the Paranoid Survive , published in 1996 and still a must-read for anyone who wants to understand innovation and the power of creative destruction. Among the many lessons I learned from Andy Grove, here are five that continue to guide me daily: Creative Destruction Is Real – Whatever product you ship today is already obsolete, no matter how well it is selling. We lost a great business leader earlier this year. His name was Andrew S.
CorporateIntel
JULY 9, 2014
That’s what creative destruction is all about, old failed systems being replaced by better ones. Brand Business Career brand is a promise broken brand promise constraints on distribution creative destruction customer service follow through keep a promise make a promise unique selling propositionI get called frequently to help companies with their brands.
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CorporateIntel
JANUARY 4, 2016
They serve a legal function much more than a creative function. I don’t like performance reviews. I never liked giving them, and I never liked getting them. They are like school report cards, only less well-meaning and more poorly formed. They make the workplace more political, needlessly enforcing nerve-wracking centers of power. They don’t make products better and they don’t serve customer needs.
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CorporateIntel
JANUARY 20, 2016
Beyond that, we are an experiment in progress, and we welcome the creativity of every voice that joins us. Like I also say, because we tread on creatively dangerous terrain, it is inevitable that we will step in poo now in again. Not surprisingly, I write mostly about business, where I try to focus on the human side of creativity, innovation, overcoming obstacles, and taking on big challenges.
CorporateIntel
APRIL 4, 2016
They also are driven to create jobs and help drive our economy forward through innovation and creativity. Last month we launched a new web video series at The Good Men Project. We call it Good Men Project Dreams: Conversations with Entrepreneurs. I am honored to host the series, and tremendously enjoying the opportunity to delve into the minds of energetic business leaders who make the daunting choice to go out on their own. I wanted to share the first three webisodes from the pilot.
CorporateIntel
JULY 8, 2015
All through these periods of business creativity and innovation, I never had much trouble calling myself a writer, because I felt pretty good about my ability to form pithy sentences and get other people to take an interest in them. Books Brand Business Marketing Writing Bloomsbury Group building your platform business creativity and innovation Carmen Sandiego Dan Bane Endless Encores P.T. It’s a bit weird, this Author thing. Let me try to explain.
CorporateIntel
APRIL 13, 2015
Imagine being sharp, creative, and personal in asking for the business. Business Creativity Marketing auto-dialer carpet bombing competitive advantage crappy sales pitch deal flow dial and smile Digital Age sales call snail mail strategic business services
Speaker: Peter Merrill, President, Quest Management Inc.
One of the challenges for innovators is how to integrate innovation with Quality Management (QMS) and balance the culture of creativity with execution. Join Peter Merrill as he walks us through the newly published ISO 56000 series on Innovation Management, specifically the Guidance Standard ISO 56002 that discusses how to establish an Innovation Management System (IMS). He will take you through the elements of innovation management from strategy development, through risk assessment to solution delivery.
CorporateIntel
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
There is a lot of substance in Roosevelt’s reflection, but the essence for me comes back to the notion of the creative process, whether in business or government or science or art, what it means to put oneself in the public light with new ideas. Creativity is not only exhausting, it’s messy. It is much easier to be a critic than an innovator, in that the innovator approaches creativity with self-critique an implicit part of the process, a means, not an end.
CorporateIntel
DECEMBER 22, 2014
Innovation is a process where creativity is harnessed, often galvanized through the building of momentum and the sharing of a vision. It is important to our economy and financial well-being that new companies are constantly born, that creative destruction replaces old opportunities with new ones. Creativity is a process that leads to all kinds of new stuff, and it also exhausts dead ends around stuff not worth doing or not ready to be done.
CorporateIntel
JUNE 8, 2015
They were expertly written, performed, and engineered with creative courage that resulted in textured, lasting impact. I guess for me this is turning into The Year of The List! Earlier this year, inspired by a Writers Guild initiative, I catalogued a suggested collection of the Funniest Screenplays of All Time.
CorporateIntel
MARCH 18, 2015
When I’m called to look at a creative company and I don’t see those words at play, they flow freely from my lips. As noted by the title, t his post is meant to announce the forthcoming release of my second book, Endless Encores. It will be published by The Story Plant on September 22, 2015 in hardcover and as an eBook. Since that is still several months off and I have at times already mentioned the book is coming, let me come back to that in a moment.
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CorporateIntel
JANUARY 7, 2015
Daphne Lonner is a tremendously accomplished CEO who has been thrown more than once in her resilient career by the forces of creative destruction. ” By the time their flight departs, Daphne and Paul have learned from each other what it means to ride the wave of Endless Encores, finding a new beginning on the path to risk, creativity, innovation, and reinvention. Ken Goldstein is a true maestro at building, supporting and directing highly talented creative and technical teams.
CorporateIntel
OCTOBER 8, 2013
Creative risk is the path of reinvention. Business Creativity Writing Author Central creative risk dead on arrival fuel of innovation razzmatazz The Story Plant This Is Rage Wayne GretzkyExperiments are the fuel of innovation. Writing a novel is just weird. This week my first novel, This is Rage , is being released to the public by my wonderful publisher, The Story Plant. I have to admit, it’s a little eerie.
CorporateIntel
DECEMBER 9, 2013
Well, if Jeff Bezos who is currently sitting on top of the business world knows that sooner or later his company is toast, I think that is about as telling a tale of creative destruction as I can imagine! Slammed by creative destruction and inexcusably poor management—a very tough critique because it was a visionary company much beloved that lost vision—it is today a zombie brand at best. Did I miss any for this year or in the near term gun sights of creative destruction?
CorporateIntel
MAY 15, 2014
I care that he is a creative leader, with half his life likely still ahead of him to teach us things we don’t know and take us places we couldn’t otherwise find. I don’t know Elon Musk. I wish I did. This guy knows stuff. He’s the real deal. If there is a possible next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, it could be him. He’s not goofing around with thin stuff that’s going to come and go.
Speaker: Donald Fan, Senior Director of the Global Office of Culture, Diversity & Inclusion at Walmart Inc.
In the digital era, rife with uncertainty and ambiguity, innovation plays an essential role in sustaining organic growth and outperforming the global competition. Research proves time and again, there exists a robust bond between innovation and diversity & inclusion (D&I); our challenge is to help our leaders understand how to plant the seeds of innovation in the fertile D&I garden in order to drive a strategic and competitive advantage from the office and in the digital landscape.
CorporateIntel
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
I started writing for The Good Men Project in its second year of life, offering to share some of my thoughts on business, creative leadership, and management also published on my own blog. In its third year I joined the board of directors and became a strategic advisor to the CEO. As we embark now on its fourth year, I continue onward, helping to accelerate our growth, invigorated by what our CEO and team have accomplished in driving, “The Conversation No One Else is Having.”
CorporateIntel
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
That’s sort of like asking the creative team who made the original movie version of Wings how they would have made it a talkie. A few decades back, before I became a software and media executive and long before I returned to writing, I wrote the “screenplay” for a succesful computer game called Wings.
CorporateIntel
NOVEMBER 10, 2013
They are taking the message of People, Products, Profits into corporations all over the world, helping executives perform better with a grounded human approach that unlocks creativity and makes innovation happen. With Thanksgiving on the horizon, it’s time again to take a step back from our daily grind and consider the rejuvenating goodness that dots the landscape all around us.
CorporateIntel
OCTOBER 28, 2013
No company is safe from creative destruction, not even Apple. Apple unveiled a bunch of new products last week, including numerous options in shape, size, and price point for a fuller line of iPads. Many of these products are desirable and will make great holiday gifts, but none comes close to pioneering a new category of experience. These are known as brand extensions, variations on a theme for already desirable existing successes.
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CorporateIntel
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
The promise of the start-up is to build something new with heartfelt values at its core, and in closely held companies at modest scale it is much easier for founders to maintain the kind of personal mission and creative culture that reflects this entrepreneurial DNA. One of the themes I explore in my forthcoming debut novel, This is Rage , is the notion of motivation.
CorporateIntel
JANUARY 30, 2013
Beating back the challenges of creative destruction is hard enough work. Business Management Marketing creative destruction customer service lifetime value love your customers obscurity and obsolescence replacement part senior executives the art of the saveWhy do companies with big brands and tremendous momentum go out of business ?
CorporateIntel
JANUARY 14, 2013
Yep, you could have found your way out, met the challenge of Creative Destruction, and banked the opportunity by reallocating resources from historic enterprises to future growth, but you didn’t. Carving out discretionary time might be the most important thing an executive can do—thinking time, learning time, creative time—and yet, where does it get prioritized?
CorporateIntel
JULY 8, 2013
Creative destruction, you say, the natural course of things business? In the Executive Coaching Workshop I co-lead with John Vercelli for Coaches Training Institute , we discuss early in the curriculum the pervasive epidemic of Bad Boss Syndrome. It is jaw-dropping how many employees reflect on the lack of leadership and vision they receive from those who manage them, how starved they are for inspiration, and how little it takes to turn a bad day into a good day.
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CorporateIntel
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Frequent readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with the concept of creative destruction , the intangible but daunting market force where an invention that is vital takes out that which has become defunct, and the nascent replaces the established. ” As a result of creative destruction, every year we add more once significant names to the Dead Brand Graveyard.
CorporateIntel
MAY 24, 2013
I will continue to blog on the topics I cherish — innovation, creativity, imagination, leadership, vision, business ethics, smart marketing, well-reasoned investment strategy, creative destruction, and every so often politics (say it ain’t so!) — and I will also keep you posted as we take my novel from manuscript to release date on October 8, 2013. It’s hard to believe this is my 100th post on Corporate Intelligence Radio.
CorporateIntel
APRIL 11, 2013
I think Lou, a bestselling author himself, is at the forefront of New Publishing in the same way Wolfe wanted New Journalism to embrace the opportunities of Creative Destruction as a positive force for change. I have mentioned now and again that I have been working on a novel for a few years. It’s time to share a few more details. First of all the title: This Is Rage.
CorporateIntel
AUGUST 27, 2012
We know that to be Creative Destruction, an ever-present cycle, so when we criticize either an equity or a product as being a fad, let’s be careful to make the distinction, and even more careful not to level broad sweeping judgment that could lead to missed opportunity. More importantly, he worried about management culture as the path to product culture, where innovation means never-ending creativity, not tossing the dice and getting lucky on a good roll.
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