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December 12, 2018 |
Innovation, Leadership |
Jim Canterucci |
Comments Off on Holistic Flow
Let’s talk about the state of making something. State of flow. Creativity. Innovation. Bear with me…this is difficult to describe. I wrote a whole book about this subject...
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July 26, 2016 |
Innovation, Leadership |
Jim Canterucci |
Comments Off on Contribute to Wisdom – A Leadership Goal for Innovation
Is wisdom being constrained by dogma? Dogma is a set of principles laid down by an authority as true. With dogma the debate over truthfulness has long since passed and the truth...
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June 15, 2016 |
Innovation, Leadership |
Jim Canterucci |
Comments Off on The Correct Problem
Are you solving symptoms? Real life teaches us a lot. I’m writing this in the aftermath of the Orlando murders. Problems like how to stop people from killing other people...
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March 15, 2016 |
Innovation, Leadership |
Jim Canterucci |
Comments Off on Who is struggling on your team?
That third assumption is interesting. There is a friction to innovation. A big part of the equation is struggle. It’s uncomfortable. A large part of the time you don’t...
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February 16, 2016 |
Innovation, Leadership |
Jim Canterucci |
Comments Off on Are you killing innovation?
Rules are designed to reduce risk. Rules reduce individual thinking. Rules show a lack of trust. We have too many rules. The role of the innovative leader: Make every effort to...
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January 19, 2016 |
Innovation, Leadership |
Jim Canterucci |
Comments Off on What are you doing with all that planning work?
The focus in this article is on the service departments of organizations – IT, HR, Legal, Finance. A seldom discussed key for a sustainable innovative company is that these...
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November 10, 2015 |
Innovation, Leadership |
Jim Canterucci |
Comments Off on Innovation: Seeing the Parts or the Whole?
Break it down. See how the parts work. Eat an elephant one bite at a time. This is a great way to solve problems. Often the solutions are in the details. We talked last week about...
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April 7, 2015 |
Innovation, Leadership |
Jim Canterucci |
Comments Off on Stop Wasting Time on Idea Generation
Ideation | Brainstorming | Creativity When I encounter a room set up for a creativity workshop with toys all laid out, I have a visceral desire to flee. But I love coming up with...
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February 24, 2015 |
Innovation, Leadership |
Jim Canterucci |
Comments Off on The Gold is in the Valleys
A principle of The New Leadership Normal focuses on the cohesiveness of the organization and the activity in the boundaries between units. Pricing working with sales, working with...
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February 17, 2015 |
Innovation, Leadership |
Jim Canterucci |
Comments Off on Increasing Self-Awareness
Presence As we age and mature and our lives become more complicated, we suppress our natural awareness in order to cope. Consequently we miss a great deal. We live outside the...