With clear definitions for imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, the Invention Cycle defines the pathway from inspiration to implementation.
Jon Gordon shares his thoughts on the value of positivity for professional sports teams and Fortune 500 companies.
As a new wave of Generation Z workers (born between 1997 and 2012) begins to enter the workforce, they’re faced with the same challenges as generations before them. But they also have a few advantages: In such a tight labor market, the chances o…
Entrepreneurs are probably the most misunderstood type of person in business. Read More
Every day more than 150 million people commute from their homes to their offices. Each day, on average, those people spend around 26.9 minutes going to and fro, in what I like to call the… Read More
What Aristotle can teach us about making an argument.
I don’t have kids. I’m not married. I don’t have a dog I need to let out. Most of the plants I’ve owned are dead. There is no “real” reason for me to leave early from work, except that sometimes I want to.
The …
Some “leaders� try to accomplish things by force and fear. This is highly unstable and it doesn’t support cooperation. What are the signs, then, of effective leadership?
Deborah Ancona and Kate Isaacs, researchers at MIT Sloan School of Management, say many companies struggle to be nimble with a command-and-control leadership culture. They studied Xerox’s R&D outfit PARC and the materials science company W.L. Gore & Associates and found these highly innovative organizations have three kinds of leaders: entrepreneurial, enabling, and architecting ones. These roles work together to give direction and avoid creative chaos. Ancona and Isaacs are coauthors of the HBR article “Nimble Leadership.”
