The blog Innovation Weblog cited Gary Hamel’s book The Future of Management a few months ago, and I’ve meant to share it’s key points on impediments to innovation. Here they are along with my interpretations:
Creative apartheid–The long-held notion that creativity is a gift few have and that creative things should, and perhaps can only come [...]
A lot my after-hours life is centered on baseball this time of year, so allow me to look for a strong lesson for the business world from my favorite sport.
Baseball today is much the same game that was played over 100 years ago. It has deeply-rooted conventions and established ways of doing things. [link] And [...]
Coach Mac-John McCarthy who runs Homerun Baseball in Washington, DC and Beisbol y Libros in Consuelo, Dominican Republic, pointed out the other day that we constantly tell our ball playing kids to be careful. He sees one result of this in that most of the kids that come to his baseball programs in Washington are [...]
