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So far Victor Assad has created 158 blog entries.
29 01, 2025

Culture remains critical for today’s innovative organizations, especially with digital transformation

2025-01-29T19:31:25-08:00

The pace of new tools for innovators, such as OpenAI, is exciting. However, research shows that without the right culture, digital transformation in organizations fails. Organizational Culture is key for executives to lead continual change, technology implementation, and to have business and financial success. Command-and control-leadership, and top-down autocratic culture, doesn’t work when implementing digital transformation. Faisal [...]

Culture remains critical for today’s innovative organizations, especially with digital transformation2025-01-29T19:31:25-08:00
3 12, 2024

Most workers have no preference for the gender of their bosses, which is news.

2024-12-03T11:45:37-08:00

By Victor Assad. For decades, employees have preferred to have men as bosses, but new research shows that as many as two-thirds of workers now have no preference for the gender of their bosses. This is a significant gain for women, going from not preferred to no preference for the gender of their bosses. [...]

Most workers have no preference for the gender of their bosses, which is news.2024-12-03T11:45:37-08:00
25 11, 2024

Workers need gratitude year-round — not just at Thanksgiving

2024-11-25T20:35:47-08:00

By Victor Assad We celebrate Thanksgiving in the US this week. It’s my favorite holiday of the year because of the family-and-friends gatherings, my favorite meal of the year, and the spirit of gratitude and giving without the hustle and bustle of the end-of-the-year holidays. Workers need gratification. Being grateful is an American tradition. [...]

Workers need gratitude year-round — not just at Thanksgiving2024-11-25T20:35:47-08:00
11 09, 2024

Recognition is the remedy for undervalued employees to innovative

2024-09-11T15:20:55-07:00

By Victor Assad Unfortunately, many employees do not feel valued at work. As reported by Forbes, a survey of more than 1,000 full-time employees in the US found that more than half of respondents felt only somewhat valued (46.6 percent) or not valued at all (10.7 percent)  by their organization. And here’s the point [...]

Recognition is the remedy for undervalued employees to innovative2024-09-11T15:20:55-07:00
17 07, 2024

Importance of psychological safety and intellectual honesty for high performing innovation teams

2024-07-17T12:37:06-07:00

Readers of this column know I frequently encourage managers, above all else, to build trust among their teams and with their performance management systems in order to achieve high performance and innovation. (As one of my readers told me, “You write about trust all the time.”) Other team traits are also critically important, such [...]

Importance of psychological safety and intellectual honesty for high performing innovation teams2024-07-17T12:37:06-07:00
18 06, 2024

C. Brooke Dobni, Ph.D., InnovationOne, LLC, Founder, leads MBA course on Innovation Management

2024-06-19T12:30:33-07:00

Innovation Management exposes students to the quickly evolving practice of innovation in organizations.  Although the outcomes of innovation are well known, organizations generally have difficulty with implementing sustainable innovation platforms. The course begins by introducing students (who are business leaders) to various definitions of innovation, and moves on to develop a deeper understanding of [...]

C. Brooke Dobni, Ph.D., InnovationOne, LLC, Founder, leads MBA course on Innovation Management2024-06-19T12:30:33-07:00
21 05, 2024

Seven traits of highly innovative organizations that drive improved financial performance

2024-05-21T15:48:50-07:00

By Victor Assad, Managing Partner Research shows that innovation and culture can be measured. And, just as importantly, strong cultures of innovation lead to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage and higher financial performance. The key to innovation in organizations, according to InnovationOne LLC’s research, resides in the ability of leaders to define, [...]

Seven traits of highly innovative organizations that drive improved financial performance2024-05-21T15:48:50-07:00
15 05, 2024

We are delighted with our workshop at LESI2024

2024-05-15T11:42:35-07:00

We are delighted with our LESI2024 workshop on “Boosting Innovation by 3X – The Power of Culture Management” and for all the follow-up discussions with LESI participants. Jason Stolworthy and Jim Keating of Idaho National Labs, and I always enjoy sharing the incredible results of the ETHOS Project study with the US Department of [...]

We are delighted with our workshop at LESI20242024-05-15T11:42:35-07:00
22 04, 2024

Drive shareholder returns by developing the right behaviors among leaders

2024-04-22T12:47:44-07:00

By Victor Assad, Managing Partner. New research from McKinsey and Company suggests that the secret to developing effective leaders is to encourage four types of behaviors. Earlier research by McKinsey and other organizations has consistently shown that good leadership is a critical part of organizational health, which is an important driver of shareholder returns. [...]

Drive shareholder returns by developing the right behaviors among leaders2024-04-22T12:47:44-07:00
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