Radical Transformation: Accelerating Growth Through Experimentation
Incorporate experimentation into your company culture to build innovation, resilience and ability to thrive in today’s rapidly changing business landscape.
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The Unique Power of Problem-Led Leaders
Some leaders distinguish themselves not through status, charisma or access to resources but because they have genuinely and fully fallen in love with a problem.
Why creativity is at the heart of successful careers
Creativity is how we reinvent ourselves and protect our livelihoods from becoming automated. Back in the age of enlightenment, learning was about human dignity. Only a few benefited from education back then, and it was something you honed over a lifetime. The learned were pillars of society. They helped advance our understanding of all fields. …
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Boost your career with a more diverse professional network
The most precious gift we can give one another is our time. Time for conversations, reflection, advice, and sparring. We learn as much about ourselves as we do about each other when we take the time to listen. But those transformational conversations don’t happen when we are in a rush. They happen as a result …
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Make purpose the competitive advantage in business
What does it mean to be authentic as a business when the very fabric of society is becoming ever more polarised? How can purpose become a competitive advantage? The world agenda has shifted. The staple headaches of banking crises, rising debt and slow growth have given way to outright fear of war and conflict on the …
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Powerful brands cannot be controlled
Someone asked me a while ago how we can control the LEGO brand, given its vibrant community. I tried not to laugh because the person had a very straight look on their face, and besides, laughing would be rude – it is a serious question that many brands battle with. My spontaneous desire to …
Debunking Popular Myths about Creativity
Like innovation, there are plenty of misconceptions about creativity, which makes it all the more confusing when people are extolling the importance of creative skill in the 21st century. To continue my quest to unravel these complex topics, this instalment explains what creativity is NOT. Popular myths about creativity Instead creativity: For those interested in …
Kids’ rules for supercharging your creativity
Recently I had the pleasure to meet Mitchel Resnick, a professor at MIT, and listen to his presentation of the Lifelong Kindergarten project. Resnick is famous for his book Turtles Termites and Traffic Jams, which outlines how control emerges from apparently independent behaviour. Another book, by Kevin Kelly, called Out of Control also touches on …