Introduction

Debut video vignette for Innovation Elegance. Organizations are at the mercy of email overload and meeting gridlock. Innovation methodology is ready to evolve from working software to working teams. The world craves a methodology with creativity, empathy, passion, and purpose - a methodology that learns, benefits, and profits from the performing arts.

The Book Title

Explanation of the working title of the upcoming book “Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile With Ruthlessness and Grace”

Improving Your Culture’s Quality

You care about your organization’s quality. To improve speed, manage culture traits such as purpose, optimize globally, fear, and conflict management.

PMI Chicagoland - 2021 Virtual Symposium

Learning Objectives 

  • Grasp Good, Bad, and False Leadership for 21st Century Innovation

  • Apply traits of a generic factory to reduce dysfunction in your current culture

  • Rebalancing Communication Channels to achieve accountability, alignment, and financial (not technological) agility

  • Apply traits of performing arts to inspire your culture to resemble a symphony

Distinguish Good, Poor, and False Leadership. Good leaders listen, lift, and love. Bad leaders are probably just climbers, bossy, and tsunamis of opinions. And false leaders hijack the role of paying customers, devastating your revenues.

Software-centric methodologies contribute to fatigue, burnout, and traffic jams of communication. Many innovators are ready for a people-centric methodology that shapes a culture of discipline and empathy via these three metaphors. A good methodology nourishes projects, relationships, and jobs.

The Performing Arts

The business world has a lot to learn, benefit, and profit from the world of Performing Arts. This video just scratches the surface of breath-taking cross-pollination of Music, Dance, Parenting, Martial Arts, Improvisation, and Theater to innovation work.

Improving Your Culture’s Speed

You care about your organization’s speed. To improve speed, manage culture traits such as ambiguity, trust, gridlock, friction, and simplicity.

Why You’re A Factory

Your organization might not literally be a factory, but your innovation work cares about all the same things. It’s valuable for you to manage your innovation factory like a real factory.

Dr. CyberSecurity Episode on the Performing Arts

Robert joins Dr. Mansur Hasib to remind his audience the value of the lessons of the performing arts. Every positive culture trait you could want for your business, you can find among music, dance, theater, improv, martial arts, and parenting. These benefits are a competitive advantage, and boost profits.

Industrial/Organizational Psychology Department at Elmhurst University

Learning Objectives

  • You deserve a seat at the table

  • Limitations of Existing Methodologies

  • Metaphors of a Factory, Asset Portfolio, and the Performing Arts to make innovation elegant

Software-centric methodologies are not solving VUCA. A people-centric methodology isn’t revolutionary - it’s overdue. Elegance is a people-centric methodology that shapes a culture of discipline and empathy.

Learn more about the book.