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Author Archives: AndrewPetrick
Collaboration Defined
Collaboration can be defined as a cross functional meeting of the minds towards a common purpose and goal, and most importantly, towards a specific end result. By cross functional we mean people of different professions or disciplines, different departments or … Continue reading
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The First Step to Collaboration
What Happens to Collaboration? If only we could cooperate together better at work, it just might be a better place to have fun and be more productive. But as we all know collaboration doesn’t come easy anywhere, anytime. Do you … Continue reading
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Executive Search – A Key to Success
We can say what we like about all the bells and whistles in our company: we know our core competencies we know why our product sells so well, and how great our services are, but what really makes our company … Continue reading
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Why Is An Innovation Standard Necessary?
An innovation standard can be thought of as the skeleton that the human body is built on. An innovation management standard is needed to serve as a foundational skeleton to develop an innovation management system (IMS) especially in terms of: … Continue reading
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Why the Big Boys Fall !
What happens when stakeholder requirements are ignored by big companies already known for its innovation? Just being good at the moment is not enough to stay on top of an industry. New ideas must continue to be sought out and … Continue reading
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How to Start a Hiring Conversation
Having a long list of special questions and top-secret interviewing techniques simply isn’t going to attract and motivate the people we actually want to hire. Rather, generating a consultative peer-to-peer (mutual colleague) discussion is going to pay dividends for us … Continue reading
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How to Hire an Innovator
Traditional hiring practices may not work all that well when it comes to acquiring the creative people we really need. By traditional we mean the way personnel tends to operate especially in terms of the screening process and generating multiple … Continue reading
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Genius-to-Folly Syndrome
Do we know how close to failure we may be? Our relentless competitive quest for more power and status may be our own undoing. Leaders who are prone to recklessness are the ones that are adapt in creating scenarios that … Continue reading
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Stuck in Past Glory
Destructive leaders stubbornly rely on what worked for them in the past. When they find their company in decline, they revert to what they regard as tried-and-true methods. They do not consider how much the environment has changed. Instead of … Continue reading
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Creative Destruction
Creative destruction means we can’t sit on our business laurels; in fact, we must constantly abandon successes of the past. And, we have to realize that too much of our present day success is going to morph and atrophy – … Continue reading
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