Comments for Some thoughts on strategy, leadership, and corporate culture.

Comment on Corporate Culture: The Clover Food Lab Story by Mike Desjardins

Mike Desjardins — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:47:01 +0000

Thank you for your thoughts! I’m in the process of writing my next column for BIV in March, entitled Businesses Dirty Little Secret, focusing on the role of candour and transparency. One of the key behaviours is making mistake and admitting them. A proven way to increase collaboration, creativity, and innovation: fail our way through to success (also called prototyping!).

Comment on Corporate Culture: The Clover Food Lab Story by Maria Loscerbo

Maria Loscerbo — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:17:54 +0000

Love the quote: “We make mistakes all the time, we just try not to make expensive ones and we learn from them to make things better.”

Comment on Corporate Culture: The Clover Food Lab Story by Karole Sutherland

Karole Sutherland — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:23:13 +0000

Love the concept of learning from mistakes and making that a core part of the culture. Imagine if that was more prevalent in organizations. We’d solve a lot more problems and stop destructive behaviours that develop when people feel they have to be right at all costs.

Comment on Corporate Culture: The Clover Food Lab Story by gallantsolutions

gallantsolutions — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:06:06 +0000

“Complexity is the enemy of quality.”
Love that quote from Clover.

Thanks for posting this Mike!
Carrie

Comment on Leadership Minute: the art of doing nothing, to boost creativity. by Krystal Gabriel

Krystal Gabriel — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:20:48 +0000

Love this Mike! Although challenging right now with the schedule I have going on, I’m still trying to create at least 30-45mins of ‘white space’ right before bed. This is time when I’m not allowed to work on projects or read textbooks but can either do nothing or engage in any activity that is completely disconnected from school. Makes a huge difference!

Comment on Leadership Minute: the art of doing nothing, to boost creativity. by Sarah McNeill

Sarah McNeill — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:53:54 +0000

Well said Mike. One of the most important habits I’ve coveted over the past year is finding regular time out moments to do just what you’ve said, ‘find my white space’. It has made all the difference in my personal and business life.

Comment on Leadership Minute: the art of doing nothing, to boost creativity. by Maria Loscer

Maria Loscer — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:52:44 +0000

Thanks Mike. I started creating that ‘white space’ for myself last winter and have never looked back. It has done wonders for my creativity and downtime!

Comment on Influencing Corporate Culture by Anne Preston (@personalleader)

Anne Preston (@personalleader) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:45:28 +0000

So often, when I talk to folks in leadership who want to change culture – they are indeed orientaged to initiating change in others. In effect – they separate themselves from the culture in order to “judge it”. What they forget is the opportunity to lead from the inside – out; to model the desired culture authentically and with congruence by being great at self leadership first. Trust is built by the congruence that comes from doing THAT.

Do THAT & the culture will shift.

Comment on ViRTUS Leadership Minute: Building Trust on Virtual Teams by Tamara Vann

Tamara Vann — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:32:43 +0000

Spectacular! Even virtual teams need trust and a sense of teamwork. This video offers some great advice on why it pays to have everyone aligned – http://www.upyourservice.com/video-theater/get-better-results-through-alignment-of-effort-not-through-greater-effort

Comment on BIV Boardroom Strategy: Fix your meetings. Now. by chris @ conference facilities oxford

chris @ conference facilities oxford — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:35:45 +0000

Really great set of ideas and a really useful template. So much is said about employee engagement, but this tends to be for people lower down the chain than upper management. This is the kind of meeting structure that will engage those higher up the chain.

Thanks for this, tweeted.