Collaboration or Competition

Organizations develop plans for many reasons – strategic plans to chart a new vision; operating plans to accomplish growth; marketing plans to introduce a new product or service to market; and investor plans to help secure financing. A leadership team’s approach to organizational planning covers the spectrum. Frequently, without knowing, the leadership team approaches planning…

Apple Celebrates Summer With Joyful Worldwide

For the third year of its “Shot on iPhone” campaign, Apple is embracing the warmth and joy of summer in a global (well, Northern Hemisphere anyway) out-of-home campaign featuring summery photos taken by iPhone users everywhere. The campaign is called “Sunshine Everywhere.” By: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6292833635938639874 @PilarLazzati

The Weird Rules of Creativity

What makes for effective management practice can look very different, depending on whether the aim is to exploit already-proven ideas or explore new ones. In researching my book. Weird Ideas That Work, I uncovered ideas for managing creativity and innovation – nearly all 180 degrees different from standard management practice. By: https://twitter.com/DalaiGroup/status/887024111305633793 @DalaiGroup

Signs of a Bad Strategy

The job of developing strategy gets passed around like a hot potato. Too often, the job of developing and implementing the organizational strategy gets handed off from the leader to a member of the management team. The thinking behind this is that the leader is too busy, travels too much, or is not a “detail…

LinkedIn Social Selling And Engagement

A key part of social selling is sharing content that is helpful and valuable to potential customers to build trust, relationships and credibility. Curating content to share, both content you create and third party content, is an important element in this social selling process. By: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6291173457233223680 @PilarLazzati