Corporate Rebels United

In this blog post Corporate Rebels discuss the painful results of the research study that was performed by independent market research firm Markteffect.

The famed filmmaker, artist, and writer has a new album, a global spoken-word tour, and a bunch of jobs that don’t involve making films.

Leda Glyptis shares the travails of an imagined innovation hero, who battles through the drama of banking over three acts.

Few things are as costly and disruptive as managers who kill morale.

Microsoft customer stories. See how Microsoft tools help companies run their business.

How will organizations evolve in 2017? Will we see a slow, gentle evolution
towards more collaboration? Or could change be more radical and brutal?
Brexit, Trump... what happened in 2016 in the political arena could very
well impact business organizations too.

What’s the least efficient activity in your organization? What sort of work delivers the least value per dollar? We think it’s management and administration.

Advice for work rebels.

Hello Tribe, This is a post to share that I’m taking an extended sabbatical from Innotribe and Swift after some of the most amazing years of my career so far. It has been such an exciting journey working with many of you creating and enabling Innotribe to grow. Thank you for letting me being part…

Here is the first update from the Corporate Rebels writer's cave. We discuss which progress we have made over the last months and what ahead.

Using quality as a lever for transformation - growing modern leadership skills, taking advantage of digital and social technologies.

Is shop floor the blind spot of leadership? For so much management and
control, very little people-centered leadership seems to happen there.
That's why I got so interested in my colleague Bill Murray's experiment.
His team's success shows that leadership is not only possible on the
manufacturing shop floor, but that it delivers exceptional results. I asked
Bill to explain why and how. 

Corporate innovation leaders face many challenges when attempting to get innovation programs off the ground. Peter Schwarzenbauer, chairman of BMW (a Crowd Companies member), is quoted saying,…

Do you ever stop to consider what it meant to think openly? Wasn’t that your basic education at school and what your parents told you to do? Whatever happened to that? The question is important because today, more than ever, we are urged to be creative in our jobs. If you cannot think openly, how can you be creative? Introducing the open-thinking movement!

By Céline Schillinger, Head, Quality Innovation & Engagement, Sanofi Pasteur.
Not everyone wants to speak at work. Most people in fact, stay silent. Of course, they don’t necessarily see it this way — they’re busy working, meeting co-workers, suppliers and clients, delivering on projects. Naturally, these activities require them to talk. But what about speaking up? Speaking their mind about processes that aren’t fit for purpose, that are hindrance rather than help?  » Read more about: Can we have a voice in the corporate world?  »

You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you. Be stubborn on your vision, but flexible on details. Failure is necessary for invention. Take pri