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From the Corner Office: John Graham, ASAE

Association Adviser

Look at innovation through two lenses—basic process improvement and big blue sky breakthroughs. AA: We’ve heard a tremendous emphasis on innovation and the need to create breakthrough products, service and business models. Can you ever have too much innovation and run the risk of not having the bandwidth to sustain it?

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The Hourglass Blog: A Lost Generation of Leadership?

The Hourglass Blog

You may remember Bill George from the ASAE Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. And hes saying the same thing in this interview that he said in Los Angeles--namely that we need a new generation of leaders to take over the organizations built by Boomers. link] "baby-boom-millennial-leadership"? Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog: Misfit Leaders

The Hourglass Blog

To better define what he means by a great entrepreneur, Pallotta tells this story: I used to visit the merry-go-round in Griffith Park in Los Angeles where [Walt] Disney once took his daughters, asking himself, "Is this all there is? Developing Millennial Leaders. Innovation. Millennials. Principled Innovation.