Are Your Senior Leaders on the Hot Seat or the Warm Seat?
It had been a good year-long project for Bob and me. We were working with a team in a $3 billion diversified corporation and our work was showing very good progress. The company had provided the...
View ArticleSustainable Innovation: Not “Just Now”
In South Africa, there is a phrase that communicates when something might happen. It is “just now”. It means that an action will be taken “now” or, perhaps, a light year from “now” or something...
View ArticleApple’s Retail Model: Its Most Innovative Product?
Apple’s reputation as an innovator is tied to transformational products like the iPod, iPhone, and iPad that create value. But, with Q3 earnings at $7.7 billion and a yearly total ticking in at $37.4...
View ArticleFour Pillars of Innovation: Part I – Today’s Needs vs. Tomorrow’s Vision
Over the years, Insigniam has partnered with a myriad of companies in a variety of verticals to accelerate growth by way of Enterprise Innovation, Strategy Innovation, Innovation Projects, and Tailored...
View ArticleFour Pillars of Innovation: Part II – The Indestructible Infrastructure
In our previous discussion, we considered the question, “How can you create and sustain growth through innovation when you need to balance the needs of today with the aspirations and vision of...
View ArticleFour Pillars of Innovation: Part III – Forging the Process
In our previous discussion, we determined that a dedicated infrastructure is essential to supporting a management mandate — not to mention a strategy innovation. Not only is it a necessary...
View ArticleFour Pillars of Innovation: Part IV – Crafting the Culture
In our previous discussions, we established that a strong, relevant mandate — as well as an indestructible infrastructure and proprietary process — are all required to sustain and create growth during...
View ArticleTransformational Leadership: Is What You Know Getting In The Way Of What Is...
Managing the base business and innovation creates conflict. The success of a business is a result of the actions taken in the past and the results those actions yielded. Business as usual is to...
View ArticleCan transformational leadership shift the conversation for gender equality?
Paris – Can transformational leadership shift the conversation for gender equality? With Patricia Arquette’s speech at the 2015 Oscar ceremony, this issue once again created some buzz on social media,...
View ArticleA foundation for extra-ordinary management results: your onboarding process
Paris – Is onboarding neglected in your organization, and not seen as a foundation for extra-ordinary management results? In the last couple of weeks, the question of employee retention and sustainable...
View ArticleLeading Change: What Happens When You Get Related?
Few topics in business are addressed as much as leading change. On a cursory Internet search of ‘leading change’, my favorite browser returned 180 MILLION results! People are looking for ways to lead...
View ArticleCulture and Innovation: Are you really listening to your Gen Y employees?
Culture and Innovation: Are you really listening to your Gen Y employees? Creating the future of our organizations is a vital role that we often assign to our most senior and experienced leaders. We...
View ArticleLeadership is an Explanation; Action is What Matters
Though seemingly counter-intuitive, leadership is an after-the-fact phenomenon; it is the label for something, but it is not the something. In the moment, there is not leadership, there is only action....
View ArticleGeneric to Branded Pharma: Part IV — Results
In Parts I, II, and III of our case study, we outlined the challenges faced by a drug company who wanted to be a bigger player in the generic pharmaceuticals business, as well as begin entry into...
View ArticleWhat Culture Change Looks Like
What is culture? Of all corporate initiatives, culture change is commonly cited as one of the hardest to visualize, quantify, and track. Is culture change synonymous with people being nicer to each...
View ArticleTransformational Leadership & Culture: Are You Demonstrating Your...
Paris – Are You Demonstrating Your Organization’s Values? We are all familiar with the phrase, “Actions speak louder than words.” In a business setting, senior leaders look for a match between an...
View ArticleGlobal Leadership: Part III—Accountability of Teams
In our previous posts, we established that forging a shared purpose and identity across multinational teams, paired with clarity of communication — via multilingualism — is essential to being a...
View ArticleGlobal Leadership: Part IV—Practices for Operating
In our previous posts, we declared that forging a shared purpose and identity across multinational teams, paired with clarity of communication — via multilingualism — and accountability via...
View ArticleLeading an Enterprise Transformation: Part I — Got Guts?
By now, you’ve read the writing on the wall, and you are probably familiar with what enterprise transformation entails — and what it can achieve for your organization or enterprise. Many of the common...
View ArticleStop Talking About Employee Engagement
Want higher employee engagement? Stop talking about employee engagement. The argument about the importance of employee engagement is over. While there is certainly a continuum of opinions on how...
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