by Maggie Nichols | Sep 9, 2021 | Eureka! Blog
For decades we’ve helped companies create new innovations for products, services, and systems. In most cases, those new inventions required more than just a new widget, device, or marketing slogan to make them possible. They required an entirely new business model....
by Maggie Nichols | Aug 4, 2021 | Eureka! Blog
Every now and again I get the privilege to sit with some great leaders. Some I simply observe – to see what they do and what their followers do in return. But on the rare occasion, I’ve been lucky enough to get them to slow down – to reveal the running...
by Maggie Nichols | Jul 21, 2021 | Eureka! Blog
Change is hard. Change is scary. Change is uncertain. Change is chaos. And when something is hard, scary, uncertain, and chaotic any human does a cry out – a reach out for help to survive it. It’s often a knee-jerk reaction, but a real and fragile reaction...
by Maggie Nichols | Jul 7, 2021 | Eureka! Blog
For years I’ve run projects for large companies, small companies, and all in between. And for many of those years, our company used a “gimme the ball” approach to creating ideas. And with each session we focused first and foremost on the objective...
by Maggie Nichols | Jun 30, 2021 | Eureka! Blog
Most everyone wants to be a leader. Over the course of your career, you’re groomed and goaded to “get to the top.” Because when you get there, you get to do the real stuff. You get to direct, not do. To make all the best decisions that the yutzes...
by Maggie Nichols | Jun 18, 2021 | Eureka! Blog
Leading innovation is about choices. The big choice to do innovation could almost be considered the easy one. Innovation is shown to make a meaningful impact on a bottom line, to a company’s return, to employee pocketbooks, and morale. Doing the new thing isn’t...
