I'm driven nearly to insanity by the difficulty involved with innovating within most corporate cultures. Great teams, great resources, great challenges, great ideas, and all we manage to reliably turn out is intellectual gruel.
I'm doing some thinking on what I call Minimalist Management. How can we maximize the potential of others without minimizing our own interference? Is it possible that these control-oriented senior administration positions are actually the worst spot in the organization from which to develop people and really lead?
I challenge my own company, and yours, to send everyone home for one workday each week. Even our people working in labs have enough paperwork to do each week to fill one day. We can seriously drop the stress on the freeways, reduce the carbon footprints of our companies, and start us on the way to the more flexible workweeks of the future. Who is willing?
Stories, Hacks, & Barriers
Groundbreaking ideas and practices from Jane Casto
Amazed at the huge number of great ideas going nowhere in your organization? Getting that first hunk of change to prove an idea (maybe just $10,000) can be a big challenge for a creative th
One of the biggest problems with all the layers of bureaucracy is that each one of those layers can (and does) say no, squelching every promise of genius bubbling in the organization. Tune