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Is Chat GPT an idiot?
Is Chat GPT an idiot? Forgive my strong language, but as a technologist and a futurist, I have been deeply involved in Artificial Intelligence for nearly two decades. With that in mind, I would strongly recommend that people think deeply about the results they get...
Forget “Quite Quitting” Organization Should be Worried About “Sad Staying”
There is been a big buzz around the phrase “Quiet Quitting” this concept suggests that employees are taking a paycheck, but they’re actually not providing much in the way of work. This is virtually never the fault of the employee. In my experience in my management...
The Future of Telemedicine and Patient Engagement
The Future of Telemedicine and Patient Engagement “The future of Telemedicine and Patient Engagement is driven by the combination of improving patient experience, while concurrently improving efficiencies in the delivery of safe and efficacious care” – Nicholas Webb...
“Quiet Quitting” is so 2022
Forget worrying about “Quiet Quitting” the bigger concern for employers should be “Sad Staying” “Quiet Quitting” is so 2022. Employee sadness and depression are significant concerns for many organizations because they can lead to decreased productivity, increased...
The Strategic Framework for Building a “Happy Culture”
In researching my book Happy Work, and working with some of the best brands to assist them in building incredibly Happy Cultures, I’ve identified a sequential framework. With this Happiness Ecosystem action plan, you can transform your organization from miserable (at...
Super Charge your Strategy for 2023 and Beyond
Super Charge your Strategy for 2023 and Beyond Leveraging Chaotic Innovation, and Formal Innovation Planning to achieve a 50% better return on strategic priorities Innovation is essential for any organization looking to stay competitive in today's fast-paced...
Build a team of Innovation Superstars for 2023 and beyond
In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations need to be constantly innovating in order to stay ahead of the competition. However, not all teams have the skills and knowledge needed to drive innovation effectively. That's where the Innovation Superstar®...
Leadership in the Age of Chaotic Innovation
Leadership in the Age of Chaotic Innovation You’re familiar with the various periods or ages of technology that human history has experienced. They began with the Stone Age, progressed through the Bronze and Iron Ages, then entered the Classical and Middle Ages....
Increase your Failure Velocity
Increase your Failure Velocity! Simple advice to anyone that wants to enjoy increased success, and positive human impact for 2023 and beyond. In order to truly embrace this concept, I think it’s important to understand the massive impact of chaotic innovation on your...
Achieving Your Goals for 2023 and Beyond
Understanding The Contentment Continuum is critical to achieving your goals for 2023 and beyond The following is excerpts from my book Heyday-how to make every day the best day of your life. This chapter speaks to the fact that we need to be thoughtful about our...
What Customers Hate selected as one of the top marketing books for 2022
I believe my book was very well received by the marketing community because it really addresses the four quadrants of growth and revenue. By that I mean, most marketing efforts focus on the use of marketing to get new customers. The problem is theoretically this only...
One Step Ahead
Competing in business is often compared to running a race. It’s a good analogy, and it dovetails with the fact that in sports, there are two kinds of races: sprints and marathons. In a sprint, the race is short. The goal is to run full speed until you cross the finish...
How to find the right speaker for your Healthcare Event
Healthcare conferences are very important to the medical professional and non–profit world. They are the central avenue for dispensing information to a wider audience. Beyond education, these events are integral in networking and sharing ideas within a particular...
The Survey Industrial Complex
The Survey Industrial Complex This article includes excerpts from my book. Happy Work on how to create a culture of happiness. In this article, I will explain the importance of getting far better, actual insights on employee satisfaction that go beyond the...
The Magic Compass
I was nine years old and based on the fact that I had been a pretty good kid that year, I was anticipating the onslaught of all my Christmas presents from Santa. My friends, mostly from the nicer neighborhoods, had shared with me a long list of the presents that they...
The Leadership Guide to a Happy Workplace
It goes without saying that a happy workplace is a more productive and profitable workplace. Happy employees are willing to go the extra mile to succeed, are better team players, and genuinely care about their customers. They connect with customers who are ready to...
Are we fostering Replication or Innovation?
I have enjoyed a very interesting career as an award-winning, inventor, bestselling innovation, author, and innovation, executive and consultant. During my career I have had the opportunity to witness innovation in a very practical way. I have seen amazing innovations...
Be Brave and Lean Into Disruption
#innovationmandate Disruptive leaders are brave. Their bravery is revealed by their absolute willingness to lean into their own executive development by accepting and even driving the changes occurring both with in their organization and outside in the markets and...
A New Age Demands New Leadership Skills
Today’s innovation leaders develop a core competency around future trends. They don’t need to understand the endless minutia of every little emerging technology, consumer behavior, or economic shift.
Know the Five Faces of Innovation Disruption
As with any concept, to understand disruption, and its power to either help you or damage you, it helps to break it down into manageable chunks. In the business marketplace, we see disruption emerging as an increasingly powerful force in five key areas.
Three Ways to Keep Your Innovation Program Ahead of the Pack
You’re already very good at what you do. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t be in the race. All you have to do is take your good performance and step it up a notch. Squeeze out just a little more speed.
Your Frenemy, Disruption
In a recent survey, we first asked thirty executives if they thought “leveraging disruption” was critical to the success of their organization. Twenty-nine of the thirty executives indicated that leveraging disruption was critical to their success. Not bad! At least they recognized the concept.
BlackBerry Innovates, Falls, and Then Re-Invents Itself
#innovationmandate Remember BlackBerry? In the first decade of this century, you either had a BlackBerry or you knew someone who did. Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, co-CEOs of the parent company RIM, guided the BlackBerry to the top of the personal communications...
The Innovation Race Is Getting Faster and Tougher
As the race intensifies, for innovation leaders to stay one step ahead requires more speed, more agility, and more stamina than ever before. The technology that was cutting edge yesterday will be obsolete tomorrow. Employment practices are evolving with lightning speed. New rules, new goals, new threats are emerging more quickly than many innovation leaders can handle them.
Innovation Leaders Stay One Step Ahead
#innovationmandate People often say that in today’s business environment where innovation is accelerating, competing in business is like running a race. True. In a race and in business, there are winners and losers. Actually, to be more precise, in every race there’s...
All Things Innovation
The purpose of this podcast is to give you fast and real actionable insights in the area of innovation, in the area of new product development, in the area of disruptive innovation, and really pretty much all things innovation. Now the reason I architected this podcast the way I did is that if you were like me and I suspect you might be, you certainly don’t have time to listen to a bunch of ramp ups and a bunch of concepts and theories. You’re looking for fast actionable real information that you can apply in your organization or even in your job function. And that’s the intention and that’s what we will achieve at All Things Innovation.
The Speed and Size of Innovation
#GSF Conference Yeah when you guys invited me to this movie I didn't know I was gonna be the movie. Well let's get this out in the open, you know right away. I'm obviously far less attractive in person than my publicist...
Innovation Leaders Make the Connection
#innovationmandate Many economists say that because of the Internet and global digital communications, we live in a “connected economy.” Although it’s true that we have more fibers of digital connectivity than ever before in human history, sociologists argue the...
Inspiring Leadership Promotes Innovation
#innovationmandate To stay ahead of the innovation curve, as a leader it’s imperative that you give your employees and stakeholders a reason to get up in the morning, come to work, and dedicate themselves to quality, innovation, and total customer satisfaction. It’s...
Successful Innovators Seek Truth
#innovationmandate Today’s winning innovation leaders know the first step towards leveraging disruption is to recognize the world as it really is and not as they’d like it to be. They know that wishful thinking will put them on the road to disaster. I once had the...
Patient Experience Design
https://youtu.be/Xoey7rwiQWY I have the incredible honor and the work that I do at the Center for Innovation at Western U of working. You know when you get to be older you get jaded and you're and you lose your enthusiasm you know? And, to be around the amazing...
The Decentralization of Care
https://youtu.be/p20LJIJCJI4 I think again keep an eye on what Apple has recently done. They went from loving the idea of having a fitness watch to realizing the massive market opportunity of owning the patient's health. There is no doubt about...
The Trajectory of Intervention
https://youtu.be/ZSSuHtf_UA8 So here's when you think about the trajectory. we went from being good at first aid you know fixing broken bones and keeping people from bleeding to death. Then we got really good at infectious disease we invented...
The 4 Pillars of Disruption
https://youtu.be/uJxi3QEaigo So if innovation is a new thing we have to learn. Then we have to accept the fact that we are in fact innately innovative. And the other day I was at the University and a colleague of mine introduced me to somebody...
How to Inspire Innovation By Making a Personal Connection
#innovationmandate Ask the typical CEO if he or she is connected to the company’s top stakeholders—the executives, board members, big shareholders, and vendors—and they’re likely to reply, “Of course I’m connected to them! What a ridiculous...
How to Ensure Your Innovation Message Hits Home
#innovationmandate Our family pet is a French bulldog. His name is Lucky. In their behavior, dogs of this breed are somewhat like houseplants: They don’t like to be too hot, too cold, or really too anything. They are known for range of common ailments, and as a result...
How Maslow’s Hierarchy Relates to Innovation Leadership
#innovationmandate No matter how you seek to inspire through communication—with words, your appearance, or even with art or music—you need to address what people really need. People will respond most powerfully to what they value right now on the deepest level. This...
How to Talk About Innovation
#innovationmandate Words are things – Maya Angelou There is perhaps nothing I find more surprising than the fact that many leaders are incredibly careless about the way in which they use language, particularly when it comes to innovation and new ideas. In its most...
Bob Ross: Insights from the Unlikely Innovator
#innovationmandate We don’t make mistakes. We just have happy accidents - Bob Ross Not everyone who innovates—and makes a difference to peoples’ lives—is an entrepreneur or chief innovation officer of a high-tech company. Here’s a true story that showed me just one of...
Innovation Leaders: Where Do You Fit In?
#innovationmandate Here are a few examples of innovation leaders who consistently have stayed, or did stay, one step ahead of their competitors by inspiring those around them. They’re all very different people! Some are “high profile,” while others are low key. With...
Innovation Leaders Earn the Respect of Their Employees and Peers
#innovationmandate Notice in the title I used the word “earn.” I did not say “deserve,” or “are entitled to,” or “should expect.” Any leader who struts around and expects to be respected just because of the nameplate on their door, or the view from their corner...
To Innovate Is to Adapt
#innovationmandate H.G. Wells once wrote: “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” The renowned science fiction author may have been talking about the future of humanity, but winning leaders understand exactly what he was saying. In business,...
The Three Key Attributes of Innovation Leaders
#innovationmandate There are three key attributes that innovation leaders know and practice. They are Access, Action, and Authenticity. 1. Access When it comes to team engagement, providing access goes far beyond the so-called open-door policy. Having an “open door”...
A Glimpse Into the Future of Health Care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAJisIGnSNM Well listen I'm really anxious to share with you today a glimpse into the future of health care and and really what I think is most exciting about this is the fact that the future of health care and...
Don’t Be a App Hole
Digital ubiquity and enabling technologies provide us the opportunity to create beautiful solutions that deliver meaningful organizational and customer value. I find however, that there are basically two problems when it comes to leveraging enabling technologies to...
As Healthcare Organizations Get Bigger, Leaders Need to Stay Connected
The healthcare industry is changing rapidly. Among many other seismic shifts in our national economy, the healthcare sector is growing faster than any other. During the first quarter of 2018, for the first time in history, healthcare surpassed both manufacturing and...
America’s Nurses: The New Superheroes of Innovation
When you think of cutting-edge innovators, who comes to mind? Probably a scientist in a lab, working on a new invention. Or a software engineer dreaming up a cool new app. True enough. But many people may be surprised to know that among the leading innovators of today...