Radical innovation evening 6.6.2013
Is your business in decline? Or do you fear it might soon be so? Or perhaps you have opened your eyes already and you want to prevent it going downhill early enough? If you answered to one or the other of the questions by YES, the RadiCamp evening on the…
Are you Organized or Chaotic?
this blog is continuation to my previous blog “Are you extrovert or introvert” which can be found by clicking here. Thinking (T) or Feeling (F) The question here is: How do you make decisions? The people with Thinking (T) preference tend to base their decisions on the logic, facts, figures…
Are you outside of your comfort zone?
You are likely either left or right handed. Similarly you cross your arms either left or right arm on top. Also you probably cross your hands either left of right thumb on top. Most of the time, or actually nearly every time, you tend to do it the same way….
Tribal Leadership – improving your business culture part IV
…this blog is continuation to the Tribal Leadership series in rework365.com. The previous articles discussed the foundation of the tribal leadership as well as introduced you to the stages 1 through 5 in detail. The previous articles can be found under these links: Does your business focus on meaningless details…
Tribal Leadership – improving your business culture part III
…this blog is continuation to the Tribal Leadership series in rework365.com. The previous article about the stages 3 and 4 can be found here: “Tribal Leadership – improving your business culture part II“. This part describes the tribal stage 5. The tribal stage 5 is the highest cultural stage known…
Tribal Leadership – improving your business culture part II
…this blog is a continuation to the Tribal Leadership series in rework365.com. The previous article about the stages 1 and 2 can be found here: “Tribal Leadership – improving your business culture part I“. This part describes the tribal stages 3 and 4. It makes sense to discuss these two…
Tribal leadership – improving your business culture part I
…continues from the last week’s blog “Does your business focus on meaningless details and micro management?“. In the beginning I am going to remind you about the motivation behind tribal leadership. The motivation is simply following: “The research done by the authors Dave Logan & co proves that over a…
Does your business focus on meaningless details and micro management?
Reporting, filling in the figures is various sheets and applications, having meetings and teleconferences to discuss the figures over and over again. Being like a cog in large machine or factory. Feeling numb, brainless and non-creative. Does this sound familiar to you? If not, you can consider yourself lucky. Many…
Employee driven leadership at Semco
When you hear word leadership you probably associate with manager/leader leading the employees. That is obviously the case in most of the businesses, but not all of them. One great example of successful employee driven leadership is at Brazilian company called Semco. Shortly there the employees decide most of the…
Finance (banking) crisis and innovation
As we all know, we are (again) living the times of banking crisis. Someone blames Greece, some other blames Italy or Spain. It is correct that the public sector spending in these countries has been out of control for many years. Having said that the European Banks have also been…
Should You Reward Bad Ideas?
In order to create good products or service you have produce an large amount good ideas. In order to create remarkable or great or outstanding products or services (innovation) you have to produce a vast amount of ideas: good, neutral, bad, very bad and absolutely crappy ideas. Actually you should…
Mindfulness as a management tool
When speaking about mindfulness many people associate it only to yoga and eastern philosophies or generally speaking the “soft stuff”. You may also think: what does that have to do with management and leadership? Actually it does and as a matter of fact a lot. The current business life is…
Let’s scrap the word innovation
What is innovation? Innovation is a buzz word that had been around for quite some time. Obviously everyone needs innovation and is pretty clear why. But what is innovation? I would describe it simply with following sentence: “Doing anything that ensures the long term profitability and growth of a business.”…
Diversity rocks
I am a passionate photographer. I started photographing back in 1977 when I was only 6 years old. My father gave me a small camera on my 6th birthday. Since then I have been photographing extensively. However, my hobby took a quantum leap when the first digital cameras came into…
Greatest risk is to play always safe
Let us imagine a company that has reached a status of market leadership through its innovative products and services. The road to the leading position may well have been a tough fight against thecompetition. Innovation work has been successful, and a great deal of the new stuff has been radical: Many…
Rework365-user-poll
LinkedIn has made it possible to create user polls. So, that needs to be tried out. It would be very much appreciated if you could distribute this poll as wide as possible. More volume = better quality results. Here is the, yes very polarizing, question.
Only the future matters
Many people are so fixed in maintaining the status quo that they simply cannot create something new. Having said that, luckily there are people who understand that the past is not unimportant, but what matters more is the future. You do not have to be university professor or exceptionally successful…
Do you want your product to be unique and cool?
There are plenty of research available which claims that about 90% of the thinking of 5-6 years old children is creative. This includes creativity itself, alternative thinking and surprising ideas. The picture changes a bit when they get older. Namely the creativity of 9 years old children has decreased to…
New value year 2011
The new year is always a discontinuity point and time for making promises. Why not deciding to start thriving your business towards new growth and untapped markets? Here are couple of ideas that might be relevant to you. Understand your value curve First you need to understand how your product…
The cornerstone of innovation
Innovation happens no longer somewhere in deep basements of geek departments. Modern innovation can be seen as a creative way of putting existing and new building blocks together. Have a look at this short and simple 1 minute video.
Innovation: thinking out of box
Many of us are used only to certain way of thinking. Businesses think they have boundaries which are set be some force called “the market”. As a matter of fact these boundaries are setup by the businesses themselves. The key is to try to forget them, to innovate outside of…
Creativity in the workplace needs diversity.
Is your team diverse? Are you encouraging people to speak up and not agree all the time? If not, perhaps you should reconsider your leadership style. Have a look at this 1 minute video.
Make your competition irrelevant!
Your sales are stagnating or already decreasing. Your market is saturated. All of the key players in the market have started a (severe) price war. Your margins are gone and there is no growth. If someone wins, someone else must loose. You are stuck in “red ocean” of bloody competition….
The heart of innovation
The purpose of innovation is not to build cool products and technologies or making money. The purpose of innovation is to solve everyday problems, make people happy and to put a smile on someone’s face.
A mega trend in working life: well being
What words did you use last time when you said no to a meeting request? Or, how did you respond when you could not join for a beer with friends last time? I would guess it was something like: “Sorry, I have already another meeting in my calender already.” or…
Steve Jobs about Leadership
Steve Jobs was and Apple still is one of the biggest succes stories of the last decade. Arguably his leadership style divided the opinions of people quite in a black and white manner. However, he brought Apple to where Apple now is. A while ago I found this short video…
Steve Jobs about the importance of sharing the same vision
Steve Jobs: “Here is what you find at a lot of companies. You know how you see a show car, and it’s really cool, and then four years later you see the production car, and it sucks? And you go, what happened? They had it! They had it in the…
How to kill any good idea?
Every human being likes to think. Each and every one of us is creative. We human beings love our own ideas. You know what? That is great! We are creative from our birth until we step into the world of money and hierarchy. In this world it is not always…
innovation: take a big pen and small paper.
Maybe the most important thing when inventing something new is to get started. Get started from the beginning, middle or the end. It does not really matter where you start, as long as you do start. Start with a big pen and small paper. You cannot draw anything small with…
Extreme creativity
I found this link a while ago in the internet. Thanks to Karl for the German version, that gave me the push to find this English translation. This story is yet hilarious and it describes brilliantly how to think creatively. It also illustrates how the “commonly agreed truth” or so…
Innovation as side product of another creative process
Like many of today’s great inventions, the microwave oven was a by-product of another technology. It was during a radar-related research project around 1946 when Dr. Percy Spencer, an engineer with the Raytheon Corporation, noticed something very unusual. He was testing a new part of the radar system (a vacuum…
What is Innovation?
INNOVATION What is Innovation? Most people understand “innovation” as a product, service or idea that has created major change in human behavior. Think about things that have turned the world upside down like: internet, Google, Apple, amazon.com or electricity, wheel, telephone, frozen food and Darwin´s theories. There is no question…
The only constant is change
What is the rework365 all about? We have something new to say about building, running and growing a new or established businesses. Our approach is not based on academic theories. It is based on practical experience. We have been operating in international high-tech business more than 15 years. We have…