Let's talk leadership development...and why it's so important for any company to groom it's future leaders. Martha Legace with Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge wrote an wonderful blog piece about Grooming the Next Generation Leaders. Three key points from the article are:
1. Talent provides organizations a key competitive advantage, but there must be managers and a process in place to identify and nurture next-generation leaders.
2. Large and small companies may have a leg up in leadership development. Medium-sized organizations have the most difficulty with talent identification because these companies often lack the infrastructure and human resources capabilities.
3. What separates true leaders from the merely capable is flexibility in leadership styles in order to meet challenges of the global economy, rapid commoditization, and hyper-competitive environments.
Take some time to read the full article and see if it fits with your business strategies for 2007. As always, I would love to know what you think.
Michael T. Bauer, MSW is the President and Chief Creative Officer of Innovative Business Resources, LLC, a management consulting firm that focuses on helping organizations align their leadership and culture with their business strategy.
Michael is the publisher of the Creative Edge Newsletter.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
How Important are Ideas for Creativity and Innovation
I bumped into this article a few days ago and thought it would generate some discussion. Doc Searls writes to the Linux programming community, so I wouldn't normally reference material written by him. He isn't a part of my daily diet of blogs, but his comments about ideas are worth referencing. They are very direct, and very true. Here are his thoughts...
1. Ideas aren't physical. Regardless of the legalities, treating ideas as possessions insults their vast combustive power.
2. Ideas aren't worth jack unless other people can put them to use.
3. Ideas won't change the world unless others can improve on them.
4. Ideas grow by participation, not isolation.
5. Ideas change as they grow. Their core remains the same, but their scope enlarges with successful use.
6. Ideas have unexpected results. No one person can begin to imagine all the results of a good idea. That's another reason to welcome participation.
7. Nobody's going to "steal" your ideas, any more than they can steal your cerebrum. You're the source. Authority over the idea begins with you.
8. Authority derives from originality and respect. You can't get respect for your original ideas unless those ideas prove useful to others.
9. There are two reasons other people are going to "steal" your ideas. First, the only people qualified to steal your ideas are too busy trying to get their own ideas to work. Second, they already don't like your idea because it's not their idea.
What would you add?
...Michael
Michael T. Bauer, MSW
Check out the Creative Edge Newsletter...it's worth the time.
1. Ideas aren't physical. Regardless of the legalities, treating ideas as possessions insults their vast combustive power.
2. Ideas aren't worth jack unless other people can put them to use.
3. Ideas won't change the world unless others can improve on them.
4. Ideas grow by participation, not isolation.
5. Ideas change as they grow. Their core remains the same, but their scope enlarges with successful use.
6. Ideas have unexpected results. No one person can begin to imagine all the results of a good idea. That's another reason to welcome participation.
7. Nobody's going to "steal" your ideas, any more than they can steal your cerebrum. You're the source. Authority over the idea begins with you.
8. Authority derives from originality and respect. You can't get respect for your original ideas unless those ideas prove useful to others.
9. There are two reasons other people are going to "steal" your ideas. First, the only people qualified to steal your ideas are too busy trying to get their own ideas to work. Second, they already don't like your idea because it's not their idea.
What would you add?
...Michael
Michael T. Bauer, MSW
Check out the Creative Edge Newsletter...it's worth the time.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Passion Matters in All Areas of Life
Happy 2007!!!!
Today...I need to talk about passion, goals, and success. To do so, however, I have to reference a game...a football game. And I generally hate using sport analogies to describe anything...but today it fits. If you missed the football game between Boise State and Oklahoma a couple days ago...well you missed a game that everyone (football fan or not) would enjoy. An amazing number of points were scored in very little time. If you didn't stay and watch until the very end of the game...you missed the most important minutes. This was a David and Goliath story in the making and both teams were working hard for this win. Oklahoma was the odds on favorite to win, but in overtime and with a 2 point trick play Boise State took home the Fiesta Bowl championship and the hearts of many people watching the game. Oh...and the running back that scored the final 2 points -- shortly after the game he went and proposed marriage to his girlfriend on national television (and she said yes).
It's time for all of us to take that kind of passion into 2007 and turn it into something special.
...Michael
Michael T. Bauer, MSW is the President and Chief Creative Officer of Innovative Business Resources, LLC, a management consulting firm that focuses on helping organizations align their leadership and culture with their business strategy. Michael is the publisher of the Creative Edge Newsletter.
Today...I need to talk about passion, goals, and success. To do so, however, I have to reference a game...a football game. And I generally hate using sport analogies to describe anything...but today it fits. If you missed the football game between Boise State and Oklahoma a couple days ago...well you missed a game that everyone (football fan or not) would enjoy. An amazing number of points were scored in very little time. If you didn't stay and watch until the very end of the game...you missed the most important minutes. This was a David and Goliath story in the making and both teams were working hard for this win. Oklahoma was the odds on favorite to win, but in overtime and with a 2 point trick play Boise State took home the Fiesta Bowl championship and the hearts of many people watching the game. Oh...and the running back that scored the final 2 points -- shortly after the game he went and proposed marriage to his girlfriend on national television (and she said yes).
It's time for all of us to take that kind of passion into 2007 and turn it into something special.
...Michael
Michael T. Bauer, MSW is the President and Chief Creative Officer of Innovative Business Resources, LLC, a management consulting firm that focuses on helping organizations align their leadership and culture with their business strategy. Michael is the publisher of the Creative Edge Newsletter.
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