From Guest Blogger Mary Beth Nelsen
Mary Beth Nelsen: How Employees Who Refuse To Change Can Damage Your Entire Business
On Feb 8, 2019 6:00:00 AM
Categories: business change management, business change, change, behavior change
Elisa Spain: How Ego Diversification Can Be The Key To Satisfaction And Joy
On Nov 20, 2018 6:00:00 AM
Categories: women entrepreneurs, business leadership
From Guest Blogger Elisa Spain
What does it mean to diversify your ego? Does that even make sense?
In the investment world, diversification is de rigueur. Anyone who works with an investment advisor has heard them talk about the benefits of holding a diversified portfolio. The reasons are pretty straightforward, asset classes typically move differently and when one class is underperforming, another is likely to outperform. The goal, therefore, of holding a diversified portfolio, is to achieve an overall positive return. And, even when a positive return isn’t feasible, e.g. in a significant downturn like we experienced in 2008, a diversified portfolio will still outperform a single asset class that experienced a significant loss, the S&P 500, in this example.
The concept of ego diversification is similar. If we are getting all of our identify, our ego satisfaction, from a single pursuit, what happens when something is not going well with that pursuit?
David Grebow and Stephen Gill: When History Happens And No One Notices
On Jun 14, 2018 6:00:00 AM
Categories: business change, technological innovation
From Guest Bloggers David Grebow and Stephen Gill
“When we look back across five centuries, the implications of the Renaissance appear to be obvious. It seems astonishing that no one saw where it was leading, anticipating what lay around the next bend in the road and over the horizon. Even the wisest were at a hopeless disadvantage, for their only guide in sorting it all out — the only guide anyone ever has — was the past, and precedents are worse than useless when facing something entirely new.”
—William Manchester, A World Lit Only By Fire
In the 1980’s, technology, automation, artificial intelligence and globalization combined for the first time to form a new powerful force. The impact of this force began the historic — and too often unnoticed — transition from a labor-intensive workforce that had existed for thousands of years to what is still a relatively new and emerging mind-intensive workforce. In our book, “Minds at Work,” we refer to this period as The Great Inflection Point when we moved from managing hands to managing minds.
Bob Roitblat: 9 Ways Traditional Market Research Fails Innovation And What To Do About It
On May 15, 2018 7:00:00 AM
Categories: Business Anthropology, Corporate Anthropology, finding new customers, innovation
From Guest Blogger Bob Roitblat:
"We should discard the old, unquestioned assumption that demographics is always the best way to segment markets." —Daniel Yankelovich, New Criteria for Market Segmentation, Harvard Business Review, March-April 1964, page 89.
Traditional market research techniques focus on data, metrics, purchase intent and attribute preferences—i.e., on logical analysis. These provide only a fraction of the available knowledge and insight necessary for effective innovation for several reasons:
