Diana Kander

Let’s talk about the importance of milestones in our innovation projects! It’s hard to keep our team’s engagement and enthusiasm up when they are just expected to come and try their hardest each day with no milestone to celebrate! It’s impossible really. It’s demoralizing. So what can you do instead? Create small milestones that we can celebrate … Read more

That’s a very small percentage of organizations that have a purposeful way to say what matters and doesn’t matter in their culture. How will new people learn what they should strive for? How will they know what’s rewarded? Culture is something we have to reinforce on a continual basis, not just from the top but from every part … Read more

The biggest lesson I’ve learned from Steve Jobs is the power of saying no. And not just any no. It’s easy to say no to things you don’t want to do. The hardest thing to do is say no to the things that interest or excite you but at the same time distract you from … Read more

Doing innovative work is hard. And a large percentage of the time things might not work out. If you want to keep doing innovative things, it’s important to master the skill of properly mourning the failure! Otherwise, we can fall victim to shame, denial, or avoidance. I’d love to share a quick tool I came … Read more

This is very exciting and scary to share!  Ten years after selling my last company, I think I’ve got a business idea I’m very interested in starting. But I need your help.  All I want to do is work on logos and marketing materials, but I know better.  I need your advice on what you … Read more

You can’t manage secrets! Please watch this incredible case study from Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford Motor Co. on how to get people to share their problems so your organization can solve them! Click “Follow” for daily #Innovation Insights! #InnovateWithDiana #InnovateEveryday #growth #strategy #curiosity #leadership

Your performance zone is different than your learning zone. We don’t grow and improve when we are performing. We have to put time aside for it to happen.  That’s why playing golf or tennis or whatever other sport you love for the last 20 years hasn’t really improved your game.  The same is true at … Read more

Mixup’s happen. But it didn’t have to be this big of an oops. Either your organization waits for a big failure to stop and reflect what could have gone better, or we make these reflections and lessons learned a part of our successful efforts. “Vaccine production is a notoriously fickle science, and errors are often … Read more

Will you capitalize on your Covid innovations or will things just go back to how they were?  So many organizations have achieved impossible feats over the last year, making fast progress in ways they thought could never happen. ️♂️ And if we don’t stop and reflect on what we want to take with us into … Read more

Do you have a solution in search of a problem?  One easy way to tell is to ask potential customers how much time or effort they’ve gone to in order to solve this problem! Does this solution work? —- This is the wrong question!  Is it beautiful?  I mean, look at it! But still cold!  … Read more