Six Steps to an Insanely Innovative Culture – Part 2

by Margaret Manson

Every organisation and group of people has a culture. But, just as you wouldn’t want your brand to be used and interpreted in any wild way, culture is a human extension of the brand and must be ‘designed’ along with the rest of business strategy. Culture as a loose...

Six Steps to an Insanely Innovative Culture

by Margaret Manson

Many businesses and organisations struggle with productivity, sales, keeping profits up, staff turnover and effective innovation. The common root of all these problems: people. And it’s not always because they are not smart, capable, qualified or (not usually) lazy or...

Innovation Is Not Enough. Are we there yet?

by Margaret Manson

A McKinsey article. MAY 2011 • James Manyika, Daniel Pacthod, and Michael Parkdekor-okno.ru It’s not just the United States that is facing a future in which the elements of economic leadership are moving abroad. Reversing these trends will require the private...

What Is Innovation Culture and How to Get It.

by Margaret Manson

Leaders know that Culture is not a ‘fuzzy’, nice-to-have exercise for the HR or PR department, but the real muscle of a differentiating, high-performance organisation. Properly managed, it ensures business longevity, market attractiveness and...

Whirlpool: How to Build Innovation Culture

by Margaret Manson

Whirlpool Corporation has become a modern textbook case of a massive corporate transformation, through Innovation that swept the entire 70,000+ workforce . Whirlpool’s heroic journey has been documented in the 2008 book “Unleashing Innovation at Whirlpool” by...

Seth Godin on Failure

by Margaret Manson

Success is what we all strive for. But it is not Success that helps you move forward. If you analyse Success, you are looking in  a rear view mirror and will only try to duplicate your previous actions. But as Heraclitus observed 2500 years ago, you cannot step twice...