From Player to Shaper

2024, January, 16

exclusive workshop, leadership development, smart leadership, leadership

Are you ready to turbocharge your business?

I am pleased to announce my co-facilitated workshop with Jeroen Kraaijenbrink.

This is your chance to energize and align your leadership team around high-growth strategy, transform your business from player to shaper, and ignite the full potential of your workforce. You don't want to miss out!

For details and to sign up for our limited session, see Jeroen's LinkedIn post here:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeroenkraaijenbrink_leadershipgrowth-workshop-exclusive-activity-7153053401038155776-hKEx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop .

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Theatre of the absurd continued: Giant space umbrella
Following up on my story last week about GE’s big idea for using CO2 emissions, let’s continue with another seemingly wacky, repurposing concept again this week. How about a giant space umbrella to solve the problem of global warming?
The Un-Carrier: T-Mobile disrupts U.S. mobile telecom
An industry disruptor is one that shakes up an industry by challenging taken for granted assumptions and rules of competition. It is able to disrupt and reshape an industry by delivering tangible value focused on the needs of customers, while the incumbent industry players are focused on trying to outcompete each other.
Kudos to Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart

Congratulations to Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, who were inducted into The Songwriters Hall of Fame last month and will be inducted into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in November, for their indelible contributions to pop music.

Dave and I connected when he was a guest on my radio show series, and I found him to be a fearless, cultural innovator. We shared a profound conversation around the thrill of continuously pursuing new frontiers and incessantly harnessing our childhood sense of creativity. There was also a funny moment when I called Dave at a scheduled time, and he was still talking with Mick Jagger on the other line.

My favorite quote from the conversation, which made it to the back cover of my Slingshot book:

“Slingshot is like looking at things through the other end of a telescope.” – Dave Stewart

#eurythmics #music #rock&roll #innovation #popculture #creativity
Companies with the best sense of humor
At the start of this month was arguably the most important date of the annual corporate calendar. It was none other than April 1st, aka April Fools Day. Humor is one of the most universal manifestations of creativity, which is the central fuel for future-shaping companies. Not surprisingly, more and more organizations worldwide are embracing humor as a core cultural dimension, and we see an exponential, global proliferation from year to year of companies commemorating April Fools’ Day, the annual celebration of laughter and childlike fun. These organizations conceive of and bring to life farcical campaigns on April 1st, signaling to all internal and external constituents that they, as an organization, have a sense of humor and appreciate levity.
Children’s imagination building city of the future
Once, Thomas Edison was asked by a reporter: “Mr. Edison, you being the world’s greatest inventor, what you do you think is the greatest invention?” He replied without hesitation: “The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.”
On to the eternal city
I am pleased to be giving the opening keynote presentation at the upcoming PMI Congress in Rome, Italy on May 1st.
Humor Is Back!

I was very pleasantly surprised to see so many companies re-engage in expressing their sense of humor this April 1st, after a 2-year pause.

For your amusement, here are some of the best humorous campaigns that were unveiled:

https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/april-fools-day-2022-butterfinger-mayo-invisible-earbuds-and-other-jokes/

And here is T-Mobile’s prank, which has consistently been a leading April Fools activists:

https://www.androidpolice.com/t-mobile-april-fools-new-magenta/

Beyond making you smile, such humor has serious, strategic benefits. Often the seeds of break-through ideas are hidden in humor. Therefore, as you browse through these examples, ask yourself:

What 'absurd' ideas do they trigger for expanding your customer’s experience to a whole new level of relevance and enrichment?

#humor #aprilfools #leadership #businesstransformation #creativity
On to Kiev, with Sir Richard Branson
Yes, sir. We are on Kiev for another mega event. It promises to be epic, because such an event has never been held in Kiev before, and because the forum looks to re-energize the Ukrainian business community at a time of great uncertainty and hardship.
Holocon 2022 - Leadership during Disruption

I am looking forward to speaking at Holocon 2022 @Holos Change next week, among a great assembly of leadership experts: https://adobe.ly/3hkfME7.

The theme of the conference is Leadership in a World of Disruption, and my topic will be ‘Mastering Creating Transformation – Finding Your Blue Waters’.

If you are a leadership development professional looking to be inspired, enhance your knowledge and be a part of a great conversation, I invite you to join us.

For more details: https://holoschange.com/events/holocon2022/

#holocon2022 #disruption #transformation #leadership #innovation #creativity
Creativity Conquers All

I was pleased to be one of the very first guests of the Action This podcast series, hosted by Zack Hamilton, Chief Experience and Strategy Officer at Stingray.

Join our spirited conversation revealing the key drivers of creative transformation mastery:

https://www.chatterresearch.com/s1e3-creative-thinking-conquers-all/

#podcast #transformation #creativity #leadership #customerexperience

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