In a previous post I mentioned that EMC has a large number of communities that generate data about the state of innovation at EMC. Perhaps the most active community is…
During the first few months of 2014 I've been writing about some of the insights I have gained by forming mentoring partnerships with my co-workers. If you have risen to…
In a recent post I described the successful recruitment of a team of global employees to work on an unapproved corporate strategy: the building of a global innovation analytics platform.…
In my last two posts I described how to leverage somebody else’s corporate resources using techniques known as Executive Brokering and Executive Bartering. After implementing these two approaches myself, I…
I've been writing a set of blog posts describing the role of an Invisible Executive, whose main task is to execute unapproved corporate strategy using someone else’s resources. In my…
In this continuing series on mentoring high-tech employees in the social media era, I’d like to continue exploring the theme of the Invisible Executive. In my first post of the…
I've been looking back at some of my mentoring engagements from 2013 and writing a few posts to summarize key insights. In my last post I encouraged readers to learn…
My experience with innovation mentoring during 2013 turned into something quite different from what I was aiming for. The goal was initially innovative new products, but the result was leadership development.…