By News Room Members of the Great Work Cultures (GWC) have announced August 2018 as the release date for their upcoming book, From Hierarchy to High Performance: Unleashing the Hidden Superpowers of Ordinary People to Realize Extraordinary Results. The book expresses…
Digital Transformation – Part VII: The Human-Machine Symbiosis
By Rod Collins Over three days from February 14 – 16, 2011, the American public was introduced to the amazing capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) during the telecast of the Jeopardy! IBM Challenge, when IBM’s Watson faced off against Ken…
Do Companies that Mimic Nature Flourish Financially?
By Dawna Jones Back in the early 1990’s investment advisor Joseph (Jay) Bragdon noticed the emergence of a new genre of company that was more adept at learning and more profitable than the corporate mainstream. Rather than following the corporate…
Digital Transformation – Part VI: An Evolutionary Leap in Human Intelligence
By Rod Collins “May you live in interesting times,” is an old English expression whose enigmatic meaning can make people wonder whether they’ve been offered a blessing or a curse. Regardless of the apparent well-wisher’s intentions, interesting times are oftentimes…
Moving from a Controlling Mindset to Releasing Human Potential
By Dawna Jones I am not the same person I was six months much less nine years ago. The journey to releasing my own potential began decades ago but it accelerated rapidly when my business crashed hard nine years ago.…
Digital Transformation – Part IV: The Two Big Jobs To Be Done
By Rod Collins One of Peter Drucker’s most popular and enduring business quotes is, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” This advice has never been truer than it is today as the technologies of digital…
Digital Transformation – Part V: Blockchain May Be the Future of IT
By Rod Collins Morning Star is not your usual company. That’s because the 400-person California-based agribusiness has no supervisors. Rather than relying on the intelligence of an elite few, Morning Star is a highly successful self-managing peer-to-peer network that has…
3 Keys To Hiring High-Performing Frontline Leaders
By Sue Bingham Manufacturing lives and dies by the numbers. Measurable data that tells you whether you have met production goals or are running at full capacity is an essential part of improving operations and safety at any well-run company.…
Digital Transformation – Part III: The Internet of Things Changes Everything
By Rod Collins In 2006, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams described in their book Wikinomics how a new phenomenon they called mass collaboration was going to change everything. They recognized that this unprecedented capacity for self-organization would give rise…
Digital Transformation – Part II: Collective Intelligence Is the Game Changer
By Rod Collins The science fiction writer William Gibson once astutely observed, “The future has already arrived; it’s just not evenly distributed.” As described in last month’s blog, our future is a digitally transformed world that will usher in an…