‘Innovation is …’: Six pearls of wisdom from Smart50 winners Mr Yum, Pickstar and Charlie’s Fine Foods
Creating a culture of innovation within your business is about making space for your employees to experiment and solve problems, and trusting them to do so.
eBook: Why choose eSignature
Download this eBook and explore how to deliver a superior customer experience with an intuitive signing experience and support environmental sustainability.
Worried about staying innovative throughout COVID-19? Ask your team these four questions
If you are not leading in this opportunity to recreate, revitalise and reset business in Australia, then the future may pass you by.
If you’ve never experienced failure, you’re not taking enough risks
If you've never experienced failure, you're not taking enough risks. Risk-taking is essential to discovering your industry's next big innovation.
Adapt or die: The business case for innovation
There are two significant reasons you should prioritise innovation: to grow your small business and to avoid a painful business death.
How to tell if an innovation project is doomed from the start
Small business owners must take the time to fall in love with their customer's problem — because this is where innovation starts.
Overcoming paralysis and fear: How to get staff to do what you want — part two
Most people turn up to work wanting to do a good job — your task as a leader is to inspire your staff to listen and follow through. So here's how.
Overcoming apathy: How to get staff to do what you want — part one
If dealing with staff performance is soaking up too much of your time and energy and you’d prefer to be focussing more gratifying activities, read on.
Innovation: What does it really mean?
Innovation is not new. We have been innovating for millennia. The key driver through all of this was our desire to improve the way we do things.
Reigning supreme: The world’s patent-pushing innovative leaders
As far as being both innovative and having the most patents filed, Taiwan comes out on top, followed by Israel, US, Denmark, South Korea and Japan.
How Shopify’s chief and founder Tobi Lütke uses priming to change employee behaviour
Time and again the use of environmental primes, or nudges, have been set up in the Shopify offices as a way to shape employee behaviour.
Transformation requires senior management behaviour change
The businesses that are flourishing have leaders who are not just talking about transformation, but are showing others how to do it.