Tag Archives: innovation

Arizona Economic Development Can’t Seem To Get It Right

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

It looks like Arizona Legislature is trying to get business friendly.  I applaud that they are trying to do something.  I just think they don’t get it.  Why is this state hell bent on simply attracting a multi-billion dollar manufacturing/production [...]

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Sunday Review: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative by Ken Robinson

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]

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Sunday Review: Built to Last by Jim Collins

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]

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Sunday Review: Good To Great by Jim Collins

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]

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Oblivious To The Things You Do

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Sometimes when you are in the heat of doing things you become completely oblivious to how things are being perceived by others.  At AgileOpenNorthwest we were talking about Agile software development and started to talk about Where Are Your Keys.  [...]

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Sunday Book Review: The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Motley Crue

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.

Take Away: Completely decadent and way better written than expected. Why did I wait so [...]

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Freedom In Being Focused

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

As mentioned on the Gangplank blog “What Exactly Is Gangplank?“, we recently went through the exercise of answering that question.  It seems stupid.  It seems simple.  It may even seem worthless.  The truth is that it was liberating.  Carrying a [...]

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Encouraging Institutional Innovation By Changing How We Educate

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

John Hagel’s Edge Perspectives has an excellent article on challenging mindsets from reverse innovation to innovation blowback. It reinforces our mindset in why we are passionate about how Gangplank is structured and why concepts brought out in Gangplank Jr [...]

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Sunday Review: The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.

Take Away: Strong networks of smart people can change the world. Those that change the [...]

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Dysfunctions of (Agile) Teams

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Over the holiday break I read Patrick Lencioni‘s “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable“.  The premise is that each dysfunction builds upon the dysfunction before it.  Much like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.   Below is an illustration of [...]

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