“Managers who don’t bet the farm on their first idea, who leave room to try, […]
Diana Kander Curiosity Muscle
Are you drowned in paperwork as an innovator?
Innovation Accounting with Esther-Emmely Gons and Dan Toma
This Thursday Thought holds lessons for us in a business and personal context. To navigate change, we must grip our transient advantages loosely. Today, as we close out the Covid-19 pandemic under the threat of war, uncertainty is a certain ingredient of our life experience. We must be make peace with uncertainty and let go of control. The only control we can exercise is over our preparation, in doing so we prepare our response to unavoidable disorder and chaos.
Financial measurement alone can suggest an organization is well, while the underlying culture is often sick (as well as many of those people working there). When it comes to deciduous organizations, they pay no attention to the devastating impact on families, the psychological impact on individuals and society when they chose profits over people. One caveat is that not all companies have behaved in this way, some organizations – big and small – displayed heroic acts of loyalty to their people during seasonal stress, but they are in the minority. Is it any wonder that employees are less loyal today than they have been decades ago?
Ben Bensaou describes his Built To Innovate Framework
The main point of this Thursday Thought is that many people in a similar position to me, believe(d) that, “It is better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission.” We also subscribe to what Picasso said, “The first act of creation is one of destruction.” However, I understand now that this approach is useful in certain situations, but when it comes to legacy organization transformation efforts, it will fail. Unless you are going to gut the organization like a Black Dinner or Red Wedding, you will not change mindsets in a positive sense and you will turn most of the organisation against you, even if they know you mean well. If you consider yourself a pioneer, you will definitely take some arrows.
In this episode, we explore the case study of Bayer and how the 40billion dollar giant diffused a mindset of innovating across the organization.
“The world is divided into people who do things – and people who get the […]