An innovation project team approached me last week, well into the solution development phase of the program:
“We’ve run into a bit of a crossroads with respect to defining the scope of our project. We’ve come up with 2 outlines (full details attached)…The group thinks that both ideas have merit; although the main focus of each [...]
The young “high-potentials” I often work with at my financial services clients tend to be a confident bunch. Some of them sell complex products and services to very sophisticated clients who will eat them for lunch if they sense hesitancy or uncertainty. Others constantly make high stakes decisions in rapidly changing markets, dealing with uncertainty [...]
This week marks the midpoint of an innovation program and I repeated to the teams Rosabeth Moss Kanter‘s “law” that every innovation will look like a failure at some point in the middle. The difference between success and failure is how long people persist before they give up. One of the reasons she cites is [...]
Imagine your manager nominates you for a high-profile leadership development program. You find yourself on a team with four people you’ve never met and know nothing about except that they, like you, are very smart, very driven and management calls them “high potential.” Your team comprises people from different continents and different businesses and who [...]
Last October we wrapped up a five-month innovation/leadership development program for 50 participants at one of our financial services clients and we have just received the three-month status report on the projects.
Seven of the nine projects pitched to senior management at the closing session are now moving forward. These include an outsourcing solution in Brazil [...]
