Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.
May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.
Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide.
Many Westerners see follow-through and reliability as the most critical factor in how they calculate the trustworthiness of another individual. In some other cultures, who you know and how you're related to other individuals is the most important variable. And for others, it may be as much about your reputation and what others have said about you.
Culturally intelligent leaders will not assume they know what will build trust with clients or staff. Instead, they'll discover what's most important for communicating and building trust.
Trust is consistently seen as a make or break component of innovation - particularly because the freedom to fail is an important part of innovation.
Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.
Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles.
It's like a koala pooped a rainbow on my head and I can taste the colors.
When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U. S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?
Getting global innovation projects right is really important as they create competitive advantage two ways. When the knowledge for an innovation is from different sites around the world, it's very much more difficult for competitors to copy these innovation - they'd have to access the same knowledge from the same places. Secondly, costs and time to market can be significantly reduced leading to first mover advantage through parallel development in global projects.