by mmartyn | Dec 16, 2010 | Change, Continuous Improvement, Culture, Innovation, Leadership
“If they had to wait for inspiration or a good idea, few scenes would ever begin. Players step onto the stage because that is where things are happening. They just show up. Then the magic begins.” – Patricia Ryan Madson We make change too complicated. We...
by mmartyn | Dec 2, 2010 | Best Practices, Creativity, Culture, Enterprise Alignment, Innovation, Organizational Structure
A couple of years ago, the Harvard Business Review published an article on creativity and collaboration at Pixar. According to Ed Catmull (President of Pixar), the trick to fostering collective creativity is three fold: place creative authority for product...
by mmartyn | Nov 11, 2010 | Best Practices, Creativity, Culture, Design, Development, Leadership
The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India is an amazing experiment in empowering children and creating future leaders. Founded in 2001, Kiram Bir Sethi and her team have created a unique learning environment where “common sense is common practice” and the overriding...
by mmartyn | Nov 9, 2010 | Best Practices, Continuous Improvement, Culture, Enterprise Alignment, Leadership, Operational Excellence, Results
The Shingo Prize (www.shingoprize.com) is a non-profit organization committed to the education, assessment, and recognition of organizations achieving operational excellence. The process of applying for and receiving recognition from the prize is extensive and...
by mmartyn | Oct 14, 2010 | Changing Behavior, Culture, Engagement, Human Behavior, Leadership, Motivation
It is rare I come across information on the practice of leadership rooted in actionable advice and useful for my clients. Recently however, I discovered a brilliant 3 minute talk on the role of leaders in starting a movement. The creator, Derek Sivers, is the former...
by mmartyn | Sep 28, 2010 | Change, Continuous Improvement, Culture
In a 2009 TED talk on his theory of singularity, Ray Kurzweil used the example of the Human Genome Project (sequencing DNA) to explain the path and power of exponential growth. Started in 1990, HGP began the process of mapping the sequence of the genome, which proved...
