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The most tempting strategy for most leaders is to do more of what we're already doing and do it better. That same strategy will suffocate even the best innovators if we aren't careful. So how do we protect innovation from process and use process to scale up innovation?
Innovation will never be birthed from a process. It must start with people. To create an innovative organization, you must create an ethos of innovation throughout the entire organization.
We've all heard the story before. A nearly mythical leader (often the founder) creates a phenomenally innovative organization. Following a meteoric rise, they pass the baton on to the next generation of leaders. But then, one day, we wake up and realize the organization is barely a shadow of its former self. What happened?
In this innovative episode, Jahmad Canley, CEO of Potential Unleashed Consulting, shares how his ability to combine his energy and passion with a sense of humor and innate sincerity enables him to connect with a wide range of audiences and empower them to achieve the growth and change they earnestly desire.
You will discover:
- the truth about how your people experience your organization's culture
- the three things you need to tell your team in times of uncertainty
- the one question you should ask yourself every day
As humans, we grow up, reach our prime, and then walk the road of wisdom as a simple function of time. In other words, we grow old. However, businesses don't face the same sort of mandatory aging. Instead, your business can, in theory, stay in top form for as long as you'd like. Here's how you and your business can defy the laws of gravity for as long as you (and even your successors) would like!
Training takes time. Promotion-level openings don't become available simply because someone is ready. Change is uncomfortable. These realities make it hard to move employees within your company, which forces them to start looking for work outside of your company. But what if you could substantially extend the shelf-life of your average employee even if you can't give them a promotion?
Every successful company's true values are almost virtually identical. These shared values actually define employee behavior and have more to do with their stage of development than they do their unique identity and how this is ok.
The culture that has given you so much success and brought you so far will, at some point, prevent you from taking your company to the next level. There is an interesting pattern that happens in virtually every successful startup, regardless of their industry.
What do you do when your business stops growing, and what worked in the past only seems to make it worse? To overcome this challenge faced by every growing business, you will need a new roadmap.
At Scale Architects, we know the exhaustion leaders face even as their organizations grow. We have seen organizational growth and decline from the front row and even from the trenches. Like you, we’ve wondered why our own organizations weren’t growing faster, and we’ve also wondered what would happen if they did. We’ve been in that …
The problem of Treadmill is the business has begun to lose or even suppress the visionary risk-taking that brought it this far. It is often so subtle that most within the organization don't even notice, and those outside of the organization (especially stockholders) will likely be happier than ever. What no one realizes is that the fate of the entire organization is decided in Treadmill.
In this innovative episode, Danny Nathan, Founder and CEO of Apollo 21 LLC, shares how he has built products and executed go-to-market strategies for companies ranging from pre-seed startups to Fortune 100 corporations.
You will discover:
- how you need to evolve your ability to innovate as you grow your success
- how to regain your innovative edge if you've lost it
- how to leverage data for innovation (the right way)
