Indian family businesses and entrepreneurs have a great deal to teach nonfamily-owned organizations about innovation. So what can large, publicly held organizations learn from Indian family businesses and entrepreneurs? We observed a few critical lessons.
Leadership
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There
One of the fundamental contributors that limits the success rate of changes in the organization is a management philosophy and approach that focuses on productivity and efficiency. This management approach has been the predominant philosophy for the last 100 years, but what has gotten organizations here will not be the key philosophy that will boost organizations for the next 100 years.
Subject Matter Expert to Team Leader
Lack of understanding of the transformative job change is the number one cause of technical team leader failure.
Five Tips to Asking Your Employees the Right Questions
Good questions (and good questioning) require practice. To practice better questions you must be deliberate, thoughtful, genuine, and clear in your own mind what outcome you seek.
How Creativity Can Benefit Your Organization
Making it possible for employees to create and contribute in creative ways taps into the highest level of human fulfillment and results in maximum satisfaction.
What’s More Important than Profit?
Cash may be more important than profit. The more we align our decisions to help employees drive cash availability, to use cash wisely, and to generate more cash for the company, the better.
Innovation Requires Unique Leadership Skills for Real Success
Leading an innovation group is different from leading other areas of an organization. The right leadership of an innovation group can make the difference between whether an organization innovates successfully or not.
What Business Leaders Need to Know about IT
Three pieces of IT insight and recommendations on how to “connect” – from a business leader’s perspective.
‘Keep it simple’ Method is Key to Successfully Innovating
In an effort to be innovative, organizations will often pursue a complicated idea rather than a simple one. However, sometimes the best innovative idea is one that is simple — simple to execute and simple for the intended market to understand.
Take a Strategic Approach to Evaluating Your Sales Ecosystem
Frequently, execution weaknesses trace to the supporting elements in the sales ecosystem, not to the talent base. h, strategic analysis of the elements in a typical sales ecosystem. A focused effort on continuous improvement – with honest inputs from the sales people – will yield the kind of productive supporting environment sales professionals require to succeed.