In business, and in life, everything is changing fast, apart from how we behave. Our ways of thinking have changed very little since we lived in agricultural and industrial societies, but the problems we now need to solve are entirely different. David McCourt shares some solutions.
Posted 4 years ago Tagged "Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility." Peter Drucker Sadhguru Lion Mouse Cat Panther Sadhguru Mouse story Sadhuru do not give easily story compassion
Whenever we place someone in a position beyond their abilities, it can rack them with insecurity, fear and doubt. In an organisation, power can poison talented people.
Posted 4 years ago Tagged Customer Validation Innovation Management Lean Startup Rob Fitzpatrick The Mom Test Startup Labs Startups
Rob Fitzpatrick is author of “The Mom Test, How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you”
His book details how customer conversations go wrong and how we can do better.
Posted 4 years ago Tagged Amy Edmondson Dan Ariely IKEA Effect and organisations Ikea Effect Bias Jimmy Wales WIKEA Effect Wiki Organisation Wikipedia
What has Wikipedia, IKEA and Organisations got in common? This articles connects the dots.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Normalacy Bias
What is Normalcy Bias and how does it impact Innovation? What is an askhole?
EP 229: Be Less Zombie: How Great Companies Create Dynamic Innovation, Fearless Leadership and Passionate People with Elvin Turner
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Corporate Culture Corporate Innovation Elvin Turner Be Less Zombie Innovation Management
Elvin Turner goes behind the scenes of some of the world’s most innovative companies and decodes the tools, hacks and approaches that help their managers systematically spark ingenuity, agility, and profitable creativity at scale.
EP 228: Create the Future and the Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking, Jeremy Gutsche
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Create the Future and the Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking Jeremy Gutsche
In our era of AI, rapid change, disruption, and possibility, there are so many great opportunities within our grasp. However, smart, successful people consistently miss out. Their capabilities are limited by seven traps, and they rely on and repeat past decisions.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Altruism Collaboration Dr Robert Hogan E.O. Wilson
Our evolutionary history reveals a slow progression from selfishness and competition to cooperation and collaboration. With every cycle of evolution, we will see increased collaboration and altruism. If we do not evolve this way, we will see increased social carnage, destruction of our planet and the demise of our species.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Dr Robert Hogan Hogan Assessments Robert Hogan Humility
Robert Hogan developed one of the globe’s leading personality assessments to identify the 11 personality scales that cause leaders to fail time and time again.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged βIn the long history of humankind (and animal kind Ants and Innovation Blackberry Innovation Failure Jim Balsillie Jim Balslllie Quote Diversified species of ant uses chemical communication to inform other ants not to explore the same space multiple times. too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.β who made of virtue of their lack of diversification once saying: βWe are a very poorly diversified portfolio. It either goes to the moon or it crashes to the earth.β
Ants have many lessons to teach humans about surviving change, including innovation lessons, lessons in collaboration and organisational structure.