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Effective leadership in innovative organisations – some insights

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 24th January 2019 Harvard Business Review has come up with another insightful article on what makes for effective leadership. This time, Gary P. Pisano shines a light on what leaders can do to channel potentially chaotic creative talent into cost-effective and productive behaviours and outcomes. (The Hard Truth about Innovative Cultures, HBR …

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Appreciative Inquiry – a tool and philosophy for positive change

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th November 2016 Asking questions sets the tone for what will follow – start from what’s working well It seemed obvious from the moment that our facilitator, Andy Smith (Coaching Leaders), mentioned it at the start of the two day course on Appreciative Inquiry (AI) that I attended this week. The minute you …

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De Bono’s thinking course. An essential facilitator’s tool?

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 24th January 2015 Edward De Bono’s thinking course One of the aspects of my local library that I particularly enjoy is the way I might serendipitously discover a gem of a book that the staff have either casually or deliberately put on display. One such recent discovery was Edward De Bono’s “Thinking …

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The mindset for Open Innovation – at “Open Innovation in Action” SBC OI summit

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By Elisabeth Goodman and Lucy Loh We had the opportunity to lead a break-out session at the recent Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC) Open Innovation summit.  It was a day filled with interesting presentations, panel discussions, networking and break-out sessions. Open Innovation is all about people Our session was one of the last in the day, …

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The needs of globally dispersed, innovative, teams

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In our August 2012 RiverRhee Consulting newsletter, my Associates and I wrote about our insights on working in virtual teams, so it was with some interest that I read about “10 rules for managing global innovation” in the October issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR)1. After all, that’s what most ‘virtual’, ‘dispersed’ or ‘far flung’ …

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Making Knowledge Work – Beyond Lessons Learned – Notes from APM #KSIGDDAY

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APM prospective Knowledge SIG Conference – 5th July 2012 Based on the @ecgoodman twitter stream tagged with #KSIGDDAY @APMProjectMgmt #KM Meeting kicking off – looking forward to it! The meeting started with some speed networking in which I met lots of great people from all sectors of work, the UK, sizes of organisation, and levels …

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Banishing the Monday morning blues: Being Exceptional

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Holidays are an excellent time to catch-up with my reading, so I have just had a very stimulating week reading Rob Yeung’s “E is for Exceptional”.  I’ve previously enjoyed Yeung’s books on networking, and emotional intelligence, and picked this one up at random, not really knowing what to expect. It’s a gem!  Like his other …

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2nd Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices (2 of 2)

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Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices, The Brewery, London, April 2011 (2 of 2) John Riddell and Elisabeth Goodman, RiverRhee Consulting1 For part 1 of this blog see: 2nd Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices (1 of 2) http://wp.me/pAUbH-40 Application to ‘other’ environments (1): biotech Simon Orchard, Vice President Biotech Operations …

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Intuition revisited: how it could be important to a business environment (Part 1 of 3 blogs)

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Intuition does have an important role in business In a previous blog “The problem with relying on intuition for process improvement and decision making” I emphasized the problems with, rather than the opportunities for intuition. One of my blog readers, Deborah Peluso, kindly pointed me to Gary Klein’s 30+ years of work on intuition with the …

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