REGISTER NOW What you'll get from the Executive Roundtable - 11 March 2015 12:00-1:00pm EST (09:00 PST, 18:00 Israel) + the book: 5 Leadership Secrets - to get innovations funded and adopted Take your personal courage to a new level - as an influencer and thought-leader Mobilize champions - to multiply your reach as advocates + evangelists with [...]
Success stories — like this YNet news profile — show what it takes to be a top innovation leader. This profile describes an innovation leader from Rafa"el, the Israeli defense company that developed Iron Dome, who is working on the next generation of technology. She describes getting into work at 05:30, understanding the vital importance of the breakthrough innovations her [...]
Our newest courage leadership book, The Courage to Champion, shows innovators, citation-writers and expert advisors how to get traction by building a network of champions. It shows you how to create a culture in your adoption network to optimize, not compromise and ennoble and accelerate, not enable. The courage you PowerUP is key to drive adoption of the recommendations and [...]
Decisiveness may look courageous. We admire leaders who have the instincts to decode complexities and say, "Here's what we should do. Follow me." We're uncomfortable in the neutral zone, unsure and a bit overwhelmed. But, the decisiveness we admire can often be premature. It may lead us astray, even when we convince ourselves that doing something is better than waiting. [...]
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Sometimes genius comes with rough edges. Especially when a go-to playmaker is hungry to step up, reach out, seize opportunities before they get away and make a difference. And when they're really good at making the big play, solving big problems and bringing a deal over the finish line. If you’ve got a real go-getter on your team whose drive [...]
Of course, you seek feedback - from boards, advisors, panels, coaches, mentors - so you can lift your game and make the most of opportunities before they get away? But what happens when the input you get isn’t what you hoped to hear? Take this Appetite + Readiness assessment to see if you have the courage to profit from feedback [...]
If you truly have a game-changing disruptive elegant innovation, your enterprise is going to get some people really excited. And it's going to make some people mighty uncomfortable. Including, perhaps, some of the very followers you need to mobilize so they support, approve or champion your innovation. And pay for what it's worth, so you keep the promises you made [...]
If you’re in and out of new teams all the time, you can’t afford to wait for each team's development to take its own sweet time. If you’re in a competitive or disruptive business, you can’t settle for comfortable risk-averse norms that compromise, rather than optimize, performance. If you're an innovator with channel partners, manufacturing partners or development partners [...]
Einstein's definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Reports say that coach after coach tried to advise Carson how to adjust his footwork, his downfield gaze, his timing. But, under pressure, he'd revert to the moves that were deep-coded into his muscle memory. Play after play, game after game, same moves, same [...]
