Innovate Now or Suffer Later

Getting off the Local lounge chair to sit at the Global dinner table

In a recent study, Canada dropped two places in global competitiveness in 2011, trailing behind the United States, Singapore and many European countries.

A recent article in Business in Vancouver indicated that “Canada’s persistent weakness in productivity growth has been due to business strategy choices; too few Canadian businesses and entrepreneurs choose strategies that emphasize innovation.”

Why is innovation lagging?

Tip #2 :Time Management: What You Do Have Control Over

In my last post, we identified many of the forces that are pushing us and our organizations into time oblivion, where we are focused on “doing”: no one has enough time and we run around addicted to a frenetic pace of being “needed”.

And, sometimes it's “the system” that creates conditions in which it is very difficult for us to see any other options for how we might operate any differently.