Two Announcements One Tidbit

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Where Art, Life and Leadership Collide

• The Leader's Studio
• Updated Website
• One Tidbits

The Leader's Studio

I am excited to announce the launch of The Leader's Studio--a multifaceted learning platform designed to develop 21st century leaders while enabling them to accelerate innovative solutions to real time challenges.

In the past few years firms such as IBM and Deloitte have surveyed CEOs, Chief HR Officers and business leaders around the world in an effort to understand their leadership needs in a highly fluid environment.  What emerges from these studies is a brave new world characterized by rapid change, disruption and uncertainty on all levels of society.  The studies recognize that under these conditions a radically different suite of leadership skills is needed than even 10 years ago.  These skills include creativity, nimbleness, resilience, comfort with uncertainty, agility.  The Leader's Studio is designed to develop and amplify these very skills.

The Leader's Studio includes:

• The Leader's Studio Online 
• The Innovation Studio Workshop
• Synergy and Synthesis Action Learning
• Collaborating Partnerships
• Creative Leadership Coaching
• Innovation Proposal Summit
• Insights and Inspiration from the Great Masters of Art

The Leader's Studio game changing approach leads to two critical outcomes:

• Leaders with 21st century skills
• Innovative solutions to current business and organizational challenges

If you have interest in learning more please send me an email by clicking here.

If you work with clients who you think would benefit from The Leader's Studio and would like to explore how we might work together please email me by clicking here.

Check it out--my updated website--and pass the url on to others you think might be curious:

www.fredmandell.com
Let me know what you think.

One Tidbit:
In the 1950's an unassuming man approached a large toothpaste manufacturer.  He claimed to have a simple solution that would immediately increase toothpaste sales by 40%.  He offered to sell the exclusive rights to this idea to the manufacturer for $100,000, not an insignificant amount of money back in the day.  

Rather than pay the man, the company decided to bring together its top engineers and marketing people.  The company asked them to come up with ideas on how to increase sales by 40% at the lowest cost possible.  After several weeks, the team had not come up with any meaningful proposals so the company decided to go back to the man and purchase the exclusive rights to his idea.  Upon handing him the check, the man gave them an envelope with a single piece of paper inside with the four words:  Make the hole bigger!  A bigger hole, he explained, would cause faster toothepaste consumption and lead to greater customer demand.

Is this an example of outside the box or inside the tube thinking?