High-Performing CULTURE  >>>

Do you want to encourage extraordinary performance from your people? Do you want them to do great things?

If yes, then you must create an inspiring corporate culture to inspire, empower and energize them. 

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." ~ Frank Tibolt

Inspirational Leadership

Inspirational leaders create an inspiring culture within their organization.

People are not led by plans and evaluations. If you want to move and get the best from your people, don't say "I have a strategic plan". You must create inspiration, self-respect, a sense of ownership and excitement.

Inspirational leaders breathe life, confidence and creativity into the organization. They supply a shared vision and inspire people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible. People change when they are emotionally engaged and committed.

→ Tips for Making the Vision a Reality

Inspirational leaders create 'can-do' attitude and make business fun. They unlock inner power of their people and sustain their commitment. They inspire, energize and move people. They build corporate communities in which people feel valued, capable, confident and strong. They inspire team members to believe in the extraordinary work they can do together.

People do what they have to do for a manager, they do their best for an inspirational leader... More

→ Inspiring People: 4 Strategies

Creating a Culture for Innovation

The question for leaders today isn’t if culture is important for success but how culture can drive successful innovation – and what, specifically, leaders can do to influence the kind of culture that leads to behavior that’s truly innovative... More

→ Value Innovation: Yin-Yang Strategies 

Innovation-adept Culture

Establishing the culture of innovation requires a broad and sustained effort. Though changing a company's culture is never easy, with the right leadership, cultures can be reshaped and amazing results can accrue. Establishing an attitude of relentless growth is what enables an organization and its people to achieve their goals. The spirit of relentless growth keeps fresh ideas flowing and reinvigorates your company. Thus, "the primary challenge facing market leaders is to institutionalize an environment where every decision and direction can be constantly and safely reassessed."²... More

→ The Jazz of Innovation: 11 Guiding Principles

Sense of Ownership

Employees who have a sense of ownership are more motivated than those who feel that they just work here. Individual employees and teams thrive when they have a sense of ownership. The more empowered and engaged people are, the more committed they are to the company and try to do their best.

Use Strategic Intent to Motivate Idea Generation

Strategic Intent is senior management's primary motivational tool for radical idea generation. Senior management uses strategic intent to communicate a misfit between current resources and corporate aspirations and motivate idea generation when it actively encourages the quest for new opportunities... More

The Fun Factor

Do you really want to learn innovation and know what is deep inside, at the core of successful innovation ecosystems like Silicon Valley? "The truth is ... it's a ball! Hard work combined with hard play - at every level, from executive down and back up again."¹ 

People don't only work hard, but also have a lot of fun at the same time. And they are not just having fun, but planning it and making it part of their culture. This is the spirit that truly enables relentless innovation and creates innovation-adept culture... More   

Freedom To Fail

Making mistakes is essential to innovation and organizational growth, as long as systems are developed to avoid making the same mistake twice.

→ Freedom to Fail

→ Noble Failure

Freedom to fail means a freedom to explore, venture, experiment and succeed in uncharted territory.... More

→ Leadership-Management Synergy 

Diversity of thought, perception, background and experience enhance the creativity and innovation.

Cultural Intelligence

Cultural intelligence (CQ) is your capability to grow personally through continuous learning and good understanding of diverse cultural heritage, wisdom and values, and to deal effectively with people from different cultural background and understanding... More