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.
Innovation
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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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 …
Learning to think in systems – using LEGO bricks.
What do Google’s Pagerank, the scientific citation index and the taxonomy of plants, animals and insects have in common with LEGO bricks? They are all systems. A post at the MIT Technology review examines the history of the Pagerank algorithm. It shows that this thinking had been around for quite a while until Larry Page …
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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 …