After running CEO groups for 12 years, I launched a class for tomorrow’s CEOs earlier this month. It was at the suggestion of a couple of the CEOs I work with regularly. The class went spectacularly well. I encouraged and enlivened by the spirits of the participants. Eager, hungry, thoughtful, smart. There is nothing like […]
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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) strives to bring the best possible health and health care to everyone. To achieve their mission, IHI partners with visionaries, leaders and front-line practitioners around the globe to spark bold innovation in the realm of healthcare. The organization provides a database of free content and creates opportunities for knowledge, collaboration
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Donald Berwick is President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). One of the Grand Challenge initiatives Don and the IHI have spearheaded is the 5 Million Lives Campaign, which aims to support the improvement of medical care in the United States. Don conveys the powerful impact of the 5 Million Lives
This paper lays out what a Grand Challenge is, giving examples. A short assessment as to whether or not you are ready to take on a Grand Challenge is included. I provide an overview of the Design Summit, a key element I developed to successfully launch Grand Challenges and include strategic partners. There is also
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When you make the committment to transform your body, you go to the gym. But, it’s not a one-shot deal. You go regularly. Physical fitness takes consistent effort and sustained action. It’s the same with mindset. That is why people read devotionals, religious texts with daily passages. Every day they focus their minds on spiritual
Issy Sharp, the Canadian hotelier, noted in the early days of his career that there were two types of hotels in Canada, his homeland. The first type was small, with a limited number of rooms. These little facilities provided highly customized service to their guests. As there were only a few rooms it was easy
An XPRIZE is “an innovation engine”, awarding large prizes for grand challenges that spur tremendous change. An XPRIZE captures imagination and inspires others to undertake audacious goals that spur positive change. Dr. Peter Diamandis leads the X Prize Foundation. Here’s a list of past prizes (as of this writing): Ansari XPRIZE for Suborbital Spaceflight Progressive Insurance
Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. In 2014 he was named one of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” – by Fortune Magazine.  Dr. Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation set up to bring about exponential change by incentivizing Grand Challenges
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Take a particular goal you are working on – could be personal or professional. Most people plot out what it’s going to take to get from here to there, but that doesn’t take into account all of the bottlenecks, exceptional circumstances, deviations, obstacles or logjams that are part of life. If you want to blast
The well-known story that illustrates the above point is Apple releasing the first iPhone while the iPod was still so popular, essentially cannibalizing their bestseller to sell something else. And the rationale, someone was going to take out the iPod, so Apple figured it ought to be them. You see they wanted the next bestseller
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