Questioning The Status In ‘Quo’
New Leadership Lens Before COVID-19, many leaders had accepted that the world was “VUCA”, or volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. COVID-19 t…
Collaboration
Innovation capital lies within organisational learning
We need to know how to unlock the real value of innovation both personally and within the organisation we work for. If we do not fully understand whe…
The Preventers
Over a lifetime of meeting people, facilitating futures search conferences, mentoring, and curating conversations that matter with people that merit ou…
Control the room in the work place
These top podcasts contains learning that can help us do better work together. Last year we began the Control the Room Podcast–a series devoted to the…
Embracing contradictions
“Only by learning to live in harmony with contradictions can you stay afloat” A. Lorde Will the post COVID-19 process of transformation honor the par…
Neurology of meetings
How brain chemistry influences meeting culture Have you ever thought about how brain chemistry affects your workplace and performance across your team…
Happy managers: The new leaders of the 21st century
We are looking for a manager who brings happiness. It's a requirement for the position to believe that people can be motivated by something else other…
Collaborative innovation as opportunity for change
The world and markets as they are now are highly complex. Every economic sector is under great pressure to create new value for its consumers, but wha…
3 Ways to adapt your business
Have you ever heard the metaphor "thinking outside the box" or "beyond the box"? It means to think differently, in an unconventional way or from a new …
7 “Future of Work” trends, now that the future has gone mainstream
Last year was a tremendous acceleration. Remote work, still considered even “dangerous” by some only a couple of years ago, has made way for the new no…
There is such a thing as a bad idea! 10 Mistakes to avoid when brainstorming
Despite what the old adage says, there is such a thing as a bad idea when brainstorming! Seasoned innovators understand the importance of a well-design…
Neurology of meetings
How brain chemistry influences meeting culture. Have you ever thought about how brain chemistry affects your workplace and performance across your tea…
5 steps to crafting your strategic ambitions
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. — Andrew Carnegie If you want to succe…
Collaborating to beat innovation antibodies
Have you heard of corporate antibodies? Worse still – have you been a victim? They’re the ones that fight off and reject anything that’s too different …
Serious play
Innovation and entrepreneurship have become the new ‘in’ things. Fads par excellence. Some suggest they may be the prime source of future competitive a…
Aligning B2B marketing and sales through influencer mapping
A key challenge for B2B companies is articulating and communicating their value proposition effectively to multiple stakeholders. There are many peop…
Creating an innovation strategy is a team effort!
An inclusive and consensual approach to developing bold innovation strategies is needed. Why, you ask? Historically speaking, strategy formulation was …
The venture board
Measuring innovation at product team level is not enough to have an innovation accounting system. Innovation has become an important activity for the s…
Masculine & Feminine Empowerment at work
I’m done with patriarchy and I’m done with matriarchy. Can we please co-lead? In order to do this, we need to accept the difference between masculine a…
Welcome to the Age of Budget Innovation
With the advent of the coronavirus pandemic and the feedback loops produced from global lockdowns rippling through the economy we have entered the era …