2010 will be my 19th year in business. I know it will be my best year yet because like every other year I have plans to execute that will change what's normal.

What are your plans?

If you feel, think, and do like you did in 2009 the most likely scenario is that 2010 will be a shocker (that's Aussie for bad).

To help you avoid this scenario I have prepared an exercise for you in the ebook Expect More From 2010.

My thanks to Gihan Perera of First Step for making this ebook happen for the 4th consecutive year. There are many great ideas from 43 different authors you might consider in this ebook, all designed to help you make 2010 your best year ever.

Please download the ebook here. My exercise is on page 8.

Be remarkable
Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Partnering passionate people to change what’s normal for the good of people, our planet, and for profit.

Labels: Ian, Innovation, making a difference, self-leadership

Cindy Mehallow of Triple Pundit has put together some excellent insights about CSR reporting including some great work being done by FedEx and Gap.

Please read Cindy’s blog with the links here.

Be remarkable
Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Partnering passionate people to change what’s normal for the good of people, our planet, and for profit.

Labels: CSR, Ian, Innovation

Good.is magazine is inspiring reading. Their good 100 is brilliant. I’ll bet you want to go and do something good as a result of reading about their best 100. And I hope you do.

My favourites are
Hilliary Clinton

Ideo and their social impact program

Bundanoon Australia

Bulldozing cities

Cash for grass

Women are the key to development

TED X

Cowpooling

Check out the full 100 here.

Be remarkable
Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Partnering passionate people to change what’s normal for the good of people, our planet, and for profit.

Labels: Ian, Innovation, role model

I have recently upgraded my mentoring services and thought you would be interested.

We live in an age, largely due to the internet, where information is abundant and mostly cheap or free, yet time consuming and often energy sapping to access.

Insight on the other hand is scarce, mostly expensive, yet still time consuming and energy sapping to discover.

Are you an Insightpreneur™?

Insightpreneurs™ are experts at turning information into insight into inspiration into ideas into innovation, fast. Differencemakers are people who innovate for the good of people and our planet.

Real innovation means the implementation of ideas that change what is normal whether that be attitudes, emotions, thoughts, feelings, or actions; indeed true innovation usually requires changing all of these!

Changing what is normal is what sets the most successful individuals and organisations apart from the rest; think Roger Federer, Barak Obama, Annika Sörenstam, Mother Theresa, Tiger Woods; Apple, Cirque Du Soleil, Grameen Bank, Starbucks, Virgin; whether you admire these people and organisations or not.

We are in a new era that is characterised by cooperation that leads to collaboration that makes a difference. Competition has largely gone from everywhere except sport, politics, fundamentalist religion, some sectors of education, and in businesses that are just for profit.

The really exciting thing is that anybody can be an insightpreneur and a differencemaker.

Insight and ideas are part of a new currency. Innovation linked to doing good for people and our planet is where the fortunes of the future will be made. Innovation is also how the ever widening gap between the financial rich and the financial poor gets closed. The most successful organisations were once those who made something. Today the most successful organisations are those who provide insight and ideas and they can be an organisation of just one person!

What business are you in?

If you make stuff someone will soon make it cheaper and faster. Sure people will always make stuff. Is this your future however? Or will you become and insightpreneur and a differencemaker?

“As a mentor to me and my family members who lead and manage our businesses Ian Berry made a significant difference to our personal and business success, and was a catalyst for our 570% growth over 4 years.”
Peter Taylor, Chairman, Townsend Building Services
+61 419 438 021

What’s in it for you?

My Insightpreneur™ 1:1 Mentoring Programs cut to the chase and save you time, energy, and money by helping you discover your unique fast track to personal and organisational innovation.

I offer no turnkey or cookie cutter programs, rather a genuinely customised program just for you.

Depending on your unique situation and needs, expectations, and desires, I offer 3, 6, 9, or 12 month programs that comprise:

1) scheduled sessions for one hour on skype or telephone that are recorded with your permission and sent to you for ongoing use

2) as well as 1/2 day or 1 day sessions in person

3) plus unlimited telephone and email access to me during the course of your program and for six months following

4) plus 24/7 access to my life-long learning vault that contains numerous resources for you to tap into whenever you wish to.

Full details including try before you buy option are here.
or contact me on +61 8 7122 4663

Be remarkable
Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Writer and International Business Speaker on how doing good is great for business

Labels: Ian, Innovation, making a difference, mentoring

Be remarkable
Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Writer and International Business Speaker on how doing good is great for business

Labels: CSR, Ian, Innovation, leadership, walk your talk

We bought a new kettle the other day. This story on the side of the box it came in intrigued me. “Kambrook was founded in 1972 by Frank Bannigan, an Australian inventor with an obsession for electrical appliances and a mission to bring the price of quality products within everyone’s reach. Frank converted his home garage into a workshop and named the company after the street he lived in.

Kambrook set out to provide customers with practical products that would enhance every day life. This philosophy quickly led to the invention of Kambrook’s first major product - the 4 way power board, which Frank developed out of pure frustration - he did not have enough power points to test his products.”

The 4 way power board is no longer remarkable. All sorts of versions exist with many having more than 4 points! Many of our ideas don’t see the light of day because we don’t see them as being remarkable, rather a means to an end. Don’t waste any of your ideas. At least test them out. You never know which ideas will turn out to be of high value to others and therefore provide a reward for their inventor.

Be remarkable
Ian
strategic advisor to difference makers

Labels: Ian, Innovation