Cross-Boundary Collaboration for Sustained Innovation

Successful innovation depends upon input from a wide range of people in collaboration, sharing ideas, comparing observations, offering wide-ranging perspectives from their diverse viewpoints, and brainstorming solutions to complex problems.
Developing a Winning Corporate Culture

Faisal Hoque, founder of Shadoka, which develops accelerators and technology solutions for sustainable growth, and author of “Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability”, knows what it takes to innovate and disrupt. Both require a degree of discomfort, he admits, but usually wind up paying off in the end.
The 7-Step Model For Creating Sustainable Transformation

Transformation can be modeled, documented, and implemented as a total game-changing process. Here’s how to get it started.
Five Critical Business Trends To Watch—No Matter How Or Where You Work

From big data to the gig economy to social selling to generation Z, these buzzwords are starting to have real, mainstream impact.
tED Magazine: What Does Innovation Look Like in Action?

“Innovation isn’t just about coming up with the next cool product,” says Hoque, a serial entrepreneur, founder of SHADOKA, and author of the books Everything Connects and Survive to Thrive.
Want to Lead? Enable Others to Flourish

Our treatment of each other as humans is what ultimately brings success. Here are five ideas from our book “Everything Connects – How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability” for connecting with the people to move your initiatives forward.
Why We Fail To Ignite And Sustain Innovation

In an age of unanswerable questions, asking the right question might just be the answer.
Becoming an Entrepreneur…Through Enlightenment

A Bangladesh-born management guru, Faisal Hoque, explains how “mindfulness” can transform your business.
Innovation Fails Because ______________.

‘Earlier this week, Faisal Hoque wrote an interesting essay for Fast Company called Why Innovation Fails. I brought that story to Facebook and Twitter, with this request: Finish this sentence: “Innovation fails because ______________.” The responses were thought-provoking, and sometimes funny.’