Quote: I honestly believe that if a firm seeks to become more “innovative” over time as a sustainable capability, it will have to address its compensation and evaluation programs to bring them into alignment with the responsibilities and work required for innovation to take root and grow.

Quote: I’ve advocated increasing your influence in an organization. You should always be looking to do that if you want to change things up and be a disturbance (the good kind). But that doesn’t always entail changing organizational structure or moving up to that seat at the table. Building influence is often more than just the title (though, in some organizations, the title is important). And no matter if your organization loves or hates titles, you’ve got to do your job before you gain respect in your company

Quote: Before we talk about change management and what that really means to a company I think it is useful to think about the reasons for change. Today’s companies and executives are under tremendous pressure from the economy, from customers, from new and unpredictable competitors and from their own employees.  This pressure is directly related to an urgency created by each of these factors independently and intensified as the factors collide to create a new business environment.