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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Why does Edgar Schein say, “A culture of innovation doesn’t scale up”?

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“ DEC is dead, long live DEC ” by Prof. Edgar Schein is a forty year saga of the rise and fall of an innovative organization – Digital Equip...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

3M’s innovation storybook: A time-travel experience through a culture-capsule

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We have a natural bias to focus endlessly on the problems with our culture and in the process ignore what is working well already. What can ...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Applying the Elephant-Rider model to a failed innovation program

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A large insurance company hired a new CEO who concluded that among the company’s main problems was a lack of innovation. He launched multipl...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

My theme for 2011: Robust intervention for systematic innovation

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I had identified four themes for study last year. I pursued all of them – some with more seriousness others with less. This year I am down ...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

Giants of Enterprise: My favorite read of 2010

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It has been almost a year since I first read Richard Tedlow’s “ Giants of Enterprise ” and I still haven’t got over the hangover. Several ti...
Friday, December 24, 2010

4 characteristics of an innovative culture

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Last week I made a presentation on “Role of a manager as an innovation catalyst” to 50 odd managers at their company’s offsite. One manager ...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

When does an intervention begin? Story of Dr. Kiran Bedi’s first day at Tihar Jail

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My engagement with my clients is called an intervention. It is similar to your doctor or fitness coach intervening in your regular routin...
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