Keeping a Long-Term Focus
When Saturday Night Live started on TV in 1975 the cast members were collectively known as “The Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players.” The idea was that they were on late at night on Saturdays because their material was not suitable for the family audiences who tune in from 8pm-11pm (“prime time”) for their television fix. But since then, […]
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- Feb, 20, 2015
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Feb, 20, 2015
Education in Singapore
Yesterday, some of the Designing Leaders crew attended a one-day seminar called “From Things to Services – The Rise of Service Design and Social Innovation in Asia Pacific,” sponsored by a community of practice that is helping to shape design thinking in Asia. The first session had to do with education, and one of the […]
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- Feb, 06, 2015
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Inside or Outside the Box?
Stories from American sports are usually not the best tool for discussing leadership concepts in Asia. In this case, though, last Sunday’s Super Bowl offers an example that is too good to pass up. As you think about how you want your employees to make decisions, and how innovative you want them to be, consider […]
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- Feb, 04, 2015
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Loose Environments
A stuffy, restrictive environment can really reduce the creative atmosphere in your workplace. Innovation does not always conform to broad, universal policies. Forcing your employees to fit into a box constructed of strict rules and hierarchies can limit their effectiveness, which pretty much negates the whole reason for hiring them in the first place. A […]
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- Jan, 28, 2015
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Balancing Experience and Motivation
You try to hire great people for your organization, and if you want to grow, then you need people with new ideas that can take you beyond what you have done before. But a lot of these people — especially fresh graduates — will have little experience in your industry, or maybe even very little […]
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- Jan, 07, 2015
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