AI has a Problem of Privilege.This week’s Thursday Thought draws an unlikely parallel between Woodstock ’99 and the burgeoning issue of AI’s privilege problem, warning of an oncoming “Tr-AI-wreck.
Posted 9 months ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Innovation Aidan McCullen Podcast Business Cascades Disruption Entrepreneurship Greg Satell Innovation Mapping Innovation Strategy Technology
I was MC for the tech stage at the Fifteen Seconds Festival in Graz, Austria. My friend Greg Satell joined me on stage and wrapped his change framework around the compelling question: “How Can We Save The World From AI.”
Posted 9 months ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Corporate Culture DEI Disruption Diversity and Creativity Diversity Good for Profits Entrepreneurship Friederike Fabritius Helen Edwards Innovation Leadership Neurodiversity Strategy Technology Transformation
Hire For Neurosignature Train For Skill. In a changing workplace, rather than hiring solely based on skill, we might consider a candidate’s neurosignature. Each neurosignature brings unique strengths to the table. Hiring for neurosignature and training for skill might lead to higher workplace happiness, higher revenue and lower employee turnover.
Posted 10 months ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Caterpillar Cake Battle M&S Aldi Corporate Culture Disruption Entrepreneurship Incremental Innovation Innovation Leadership Rita McGrath Transformation
Incremental innovation remains a critical component for organisations. However, when an organisation only rewards incremental endeavours (recognition, remuneration and promotion), why would anybody want to risk their career with transformational effort? Give the customer a 12-blade razor, a chai-latte-flavoured soda or a 6G Origami phone. By all means, be a fast-moving caterpillar-cake copycat, but invest some of the profits from the incremental present into the transformational future. Don’t use the future to fuel your present.
Posted 10 months ago Tagged Business Cricket Protein Disruption Innovation Insect Protein Marketing Strategy Technology Transformation Veganism
Helen Edwards book, “Marginal to Mainstream” shows why businesses, marketers and entrepreneurs need to break free from their ‘mainstream inhibition’ and turn their attention to the margins – to confront, evaluate and embrace the ‘strangeness’ of behaviours, ideas and ways of life at the fringes.
Posted 10 months ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Corporate Culture David Cutler Disruption Innovation Leadership Puzzler Company The game of Innovation Transformation
David Cutler’s “The GAME of Innovation” book, shares a flexible methodology for designing powerhouse innovation GAMEs (Guidelines, Arena, Materials, Experience), Aligning teams with five problem-solving “lenses.
Posted 12 months ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business How Will You Measure Your Life Karen Dillon Innovation Karen Dillon Microstress Leadership Transformation
Microstress: tiny moments of stress triggered by people in our personal and professional lives; stresses so routine that we barely register them but whose cumulative toll is debilitating. We welcome the author of “The Microstress Effect” Karen Dillon
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Some organisations engage in renewal as an event rather than an ongoing process. In such cases, they find their organisational skillsets and capabilities are inadequate for the new reality. Often employees who excelled in a previous reality struggle in the new paradigm. In some cases, these employees become senescent. They can even act like a senescent cell and influence those around them to become toxic and malevolent.
Posted 1 year ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Ambidexerity Business Entrepreneurship Human Potential Innovation Lead and Disrupt. Exploit and Explore Leadership Technology Tushman and O'Reilly Undisruptable Winning Through Innovation
In part 2 of our Tushman and O’Reilly series, Charles O’Reilly III explores the importance of cultural alignment in encouraging change. We focus on the cases of DaVita, Microsoft and AGC.
Posted 1 year ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Business Corporate Culture Deinosuchus Disruption Leadership Rightsizing Strategy Transformation
Leaders must rightsize the organisation for their current reality when confronting change, a difficult task, as Kodak discovered.