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...
by Doug Hall | Jun 15, 2021 | Eureka! Blog
Innovation is NOT OFTEN LOVED Innovation requires CHANGE Innovation activates organizational RESISTANCE Innovation often gets you LAUGHED AT Innovations FAIL A LOT SO WHY BOTHER? Because when it works it’s worth all the pain and suffering Last weekend Eureka! Ranch...
by Doug Hall | Jun 7, 2021 | Eureka! Blog
Walter Taylor of Bully Hill was a CRAZY INNOVATOR. The most entertaining of the 3 wineries. Walter created Bully Hill after he was fired from his family’s Taylor Wine Company in 1970. Everything changed in 1977 when Coca-Cola bought Taylor Wine. They sued Walter to...