Medius International Inc.

Medius International Inc.

Medius International Inc. Medius International Inc.
  • What We Do
    • Insight
    • Strategy
    • Culture
    • Workshops
  • Blog| Leadership Insights
  • Medius PsychNews™
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn

Blog| Leadership Insights

Psychology Drives Everything

Find out how Psychology can grow your business

Leadership Insights

Why a Growth Strategy Might Miss the Point

I am complicit in choreographing leadership summits and national sales meetings titled, Fit for Growth, Go for Growth and Excel. The classical marketing literature holds that growth is not a strategy but the outcome of one.

Read More

Leadership Insights

A Revolution in Quebec's Health Network

Download the recent white paper on the Quebec Health Network by Alain Gilbert.

FrenchEnglish

Leadership Insights

Single Studies Are A Fool's Paradise and A Marketer's Dream (or Nightmare)

Individual research studies volley across the landscape of any debate like tennis balls at Wimbledon. Opposing positions inevitably find credible studies supporting their point of view...on the exact same topic! If you follow any debate on social media sites, you will remark how comments quickly degenerate into verbal melees and slugfests. It's not only unproductive...it's nuts!

Read More

Leadership Insights

The Six (Politically Incorrect) Rules of Entrepreneurship

In the mid-1970’s, Macrae published an article in The Economist, proposing that people working in corporations should behave more like entrepreneurs, that is, with creativity, innovation, risk-taking, and personal accountability. In 1985 Pinchot and Pinchot coined the term intrapreneur to describe someone working with an entrepreneurial attitude in a corporate environment.

Read More

Leadership Insights

Intrapreneurship: The Lost Grail of Innovation

Long before the term globalization entered our daily language, thought-leaders such as Peter Drucker predicted that this phenomenon would require corporations to take on a different attitude and skill set for success. In the mid-1970’s, Macrae (1976) writing in The Economist, proposed that the people working in corporations should behave as if they were entrepreneurs, that is, in a manner that fostered creativity, innovation, risk-taking, competitiveness, and personal accountability.

Read More

Leadership Insights

Why is it so difficult to change Just One Thing?

Have you ever noticed how tough it is to change even one thing in your life? No sooner have you taken the first few steps than something always intervenes to sabotage the effort. Every January 1st, millions of people resolve to change some element of their lives: To exercise, to lose weight, to follow a budget or stop drinking, etc. In the vast majority of cases, these efforts are usually short lived and people return to their old patterns. Why is that?

Read More

Leadership Insights

Stories Bring Data To Life With a Big Payoff

Data and information without a story is like a brick wall without mortar. The spaces between the metrics where people really make decisions are critical to understanding the truth. The payoff is huge: Resources spent on things that work, less wasted time, fresh ideas for innovation…and much more.

Read More

Leadership Insights

5 Ways To Build Your Strategic Plan For Competitive Advantage

Over the last 20 years or so, we've run a lot of strategic planning sessions with clients in a variety of sectors including Pharma, med-tech, transportation, telecom, hospitality, services, and even not-for-profits. Regardless of industry, we have found that five things separate successful plans from those that keep coming back each year having accomplished little of what had been planned.

Read More

Featured Articles

Why a growth strategy might miss the point

Why a growth strategy might miss the point

  • July 28, 2017
  • Leadership Insights

The classical marketing literature holds that growth is not a strategy but the outcome of one. Where does the customer feature in corporate growth strategies? Here we explore why growth is not an effective long-term strategy with 7 steps to focus on delighting the customer.

Continue Reading

You Can’t Protect Yourself Part-Time…

You Can’t Protect Yourself Part-Time…

  • March 9, 2017
  • Leadership Insights

The willingness to trust others is built into our DNA. Working together has always been key to the survival of our species. Having faith in one another is in the best interest of both the individual and the collective—especially in times of risk and uncertainty.

Continue Reading

Single Studies Are A Fool’s Paradise and A Marketer’s Dream (or Nightmare)

Single Studies Are A Fool’s Paradise and A Marketer’s Dream (or Nightmare)

  • January 17, 2017
  • Leadership Insights

Motivated Reasoning is the tendency to develop elaborate rationalizations in support of a given point of view, and then seek out sources to support that point of view while ignoring contrary evidence. Relying on single studies is a poor basis for arriving at conclusions and making important decisions. Look for systematic literature reviews and consensus panels.

Continue Reading

The Six [Politically Incorrect] Rules of Entrepreneurship

The Six [Politically Incorrect] Rules of Entrepreneurship

  • January 10, 2017
  • Leadership Insights

In the Rules of Entrepreneurship six themes consistently ran through the narratives of the participants. Digging deeper into each theme provided a wealth of wisdom about the experience of succeeding through risk-taking and ownership of results.

Continue Reading

Intrapreneurship: The Lost Grail of Innovation

Intrapreneurship: The Lost Grail of Innovation

  • November 17, 2016
  • Leadership Insights

Pinchot and Pinchot coined the term intrapreneur to describe someone working with an entrepreneurial attitude in a corporate environment. We organized a formal study of Intrapreneurship looking at organizations that had successfully managed to implement it. The findings were both surprising and encouraging.

Continue Reading

Why is it so difficult to change Just One Thing?

Why is it so difficult to change Just One Thing?

  • November 1, 2016
  • Leadership Insights

The research methodology of Grounded Theory gets its power from approaching problems without hypotheses and building theories from the ground up.  Taking the time to discover changes in context promises a big payoff in success, efficiency, and cost.

Continue Reading

Posts navigation

1 2 3

Have Any Questions?

Please feel free to contact us with any questions you might have regarding one of our services.

Have Any Questions?

Arrange a presentation

Click if you would like to learn more and schedule an appointment for a presentation either in person, over the phone, or by webex.

Arrange a presentation

Recent News

Take a look at some of the recent news and developments that might be relevant to your business.

Recent News
  • What We Do
    • Insight
    • Strategy
    • Culture
    • Workshops
  • Blog| Leadership Insights
  • Medius PsychNews™
  • About Us
  • Contact Us