Jean’s Tips - helpful one-liner on Innovation

New tip for Winter/Spring 2008:

Organisations which allocate their hard-won dollars with extreme care are more likely to survive and expand.

Previous tip for Autumn 2008:

Everything you do, say, think, or feel takes time! That’s the reality of time. We are used to budgeting our finances, but how good are we at budgeting our time?

Previous tip for Spring 2007/Summer 2008:

When you have a problem to solve, always start with the facts – then move to how you feel about the facts.

Previous tip for Winter 2007:

If you are attempting to influence, guide or change an organisation, your starting point is the person or people who have both control and influence over decision-making.

Previous tip for Autumn 2007:

The better equipped committees are to anticipate conflict, the better equipped they are to deal with it sensitively and firmly...or even to avoid it.

Previous tip for Summer 2006/2007:

Make sure that all people within your organisation know the difference and relationship between authority, accountability and responsibility: you can delegate authority and responsibility – but you cannot delegate accountability.

Previous tip for Winter 2006:

Governance is doing – not just talking about doing!

Previous tip for Autumn 2006:

Spend at least half an hour each Committee or Board meeting in strategic discussion.

Previous tip for Summer 2005/2006:

Effective innovation relies as much on passion and commitment as it does on dollars and cents.

Previous tip for Spring 2005:

Effective communication has 4 key 'players'– the sender of the message, the receiver of the message, the message itself, and the means of communication. It takes careful attention to all 4 to be an effective communicator.

Previous tip for Winter 2005:

We read about different kinds of intelligence in business magazines and management books...yet ‘intelligence’ is simply the use and application of your knowledge and experience. It is not a mystery.