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Marketing was wearing suit and tie everyday, and teams were operating by consensus and under the tight control of one leader. Blanchard). Let’s learn from Marketing, and its customer centricity. This was when ‘facetime’ at the office was mandatory. Alignment was more important than anything else. ‘Us’ Us’ prevailed over ‘I’.
Ken Blanchard Co-author of The One Minute Manager and Golden Gavel Award recipient “Finally! Think about it this way: You likely spend countless hours collaborating and innovating to put forth really good ideas. Read this book, absorb this book, practice what it preaches, and you’ll be on your way to being a great communicator.
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Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. The key to innovation has been and always will be People. I view the commitment to innovate, in the companies I’ve worked for and with, as a spectrum of lobsters - from cooked, to live, to rare blue ones. Blue Lobsters. Not anymore.
2 Responses davidburkus , on July 19, 2010 at 1:57 pm said: The quote comes from Ken Blanchard, and he is dead on. Filed under: Leadership Tagged: | champions , feedback , listening , process , success « Book Review: Here Comes Everybody Commitment » Like Be the first to like this post.
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