Tag: innovation
Four Ways Your Organization Can Stay Ahead
I recently saw an independent study that said there were 4,900 woodworking manufacturers in the United States. 4,900! Talk about competition. The study continued to say that about 85% of the business is done by only 5% of the industry! How crazy is that? This screams that there is a major lack of leadership in [...]
Creating the Right Office Culture to Foster Innovation
If you’ve ever wondered why the buzzword “innovation” is thrown around so often, it’s because its two biggest results – added value and the change that drives it – are so crucial to business growth. Innovation is the marshalling of resources to create breakthrough value; this process introduces value-driven change into relatively stable systems. Without [...]
With Bin Laden’s Death Comes Entrepreneurship’s Birth
Bin Laden: Dead. Entrepreneurship: Alive. A typical Sunday night at 10:30 PM here in New York and I’m in between conference calls when my Co-Founder Jared O’Toole rings me, probably to yell at me for something, when he halts mid sentence to tell me Obama is making a major announcement. Instantly, I command+tab from my [...]
