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.
Leadership
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.
Uncover Better Priorities and Actions
The Art of Meraki teaches us the power of putting our soul into something and thinking more deeply about our actions. Listening more deeply. Being more thorough in how you approach something. To do anything well requires Meraki. Meraki reveals your inner wisdom. Rushing less. Reflecting more. meraki / noun. Greek To do something with …
Unlock the Impact Player Mindset for Your Best Work
Early in our careers, we want to know what it takes to get ahead. Later in our working lives, we want to know what it takes to stay on top and continue to play our A game. Often we think it is about knowing the right stuff, having the right degree from the right school, …
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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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Secrets of being braver and finding your courage
How do you create the builders of tomorrow? How do you work proactively to reduce the fear holding you back? In this podcast, recorded at the Marketing Society’s Braver conference in London in November 2018, I talk about that and how LEGO used its crisis to discover its purpose. And how to move forward and …
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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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Value creation in the age of the empowered consumer
Power is changing hands. Connectivity is changing how we communicate, the kinds of products we find valuable and the services we prefer. For a long time, audiences chose a product not because it was superior but because the switching costs were too high. Users were ‘locked in’ – not because of active choice, but because of the effort …
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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 …