Videos

Here’s a collection of videos from my various blog posts on a variety of management and leadership topics.

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What Does it Take to Think Like an Innovator?

by Robert Tanner on February 16, 2012

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Innovation is no longer a nice-to-have skill!  It is a necessity for today’s business leaders and managers.  Innovation must become a part of everyday operations for a business of any size to survive.  Those businesses that are not innovating and doing something new will find that they lag their market and this will lead to [...]

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Improving Decision Making with the Ladder of Inference

by Robert Tanner on December 29, 2011

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My Twitter colleague, Renee Charney of Charney Coaching & Consulting wrote a great post on her blog on the Ladder of Inference. Like Renee, I like this tool and it is a great tool for moving from faulty decision making to informed decision making. It’s helpful for preventing us from making that all too human [...]

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How to Execute Innovation Successfully

by Robert Tanner on December 8, 2011

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Innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. –Thomas Edison I’ll probably get in trouble with my wife on this post about executing innovation (since she reads and critiques all of my posts), but I am a brave man (and we have been married long enough) so I’ll venture on.  My wife is very creative and [...]

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Command and control leadership is increasingly recognized as an inappropriate primary leadership style for many modern organizations. The declining utility of this style has occurred over the last several decades and it has been accelerated in this new millennium. While command and control leadership style has its place (particularly in an immediate crisis mode or [...]

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At times in my consulting and training work, different managers will tell me that they ignore office politics and just do their jobs.  They explain that good work and a high performing team are all they need in their management role to be influential in their organizations and to support their team.  I explain that [...]

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Stephen Covey explains the power of listening for understanding in his story about the Indian Talking Stick.  As anyone knows who has ever taken one of my college classes or attended one of my business seminars, I believe that listening is one of the most under utilized and underrated skills of leaders and managers.  In [...]

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Some companies like 3M, Proctor & Gamble, Google, and Apple are known for their cultures of innovation. Emerging markets are also fertile ground for innovation in this global environment. Innovate or become obsolete is the new reality of business in this new millennium.It is not easy to create a culture that promotes innovation where one has [...]