Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable
Safely stepping into the unknown This creates an opening and a threshold to partner with others in resourceful and creative ways and supports them, …
Innovation Culture
Being Playful And Experimental To Create And Innovate
Being playful and experimental In the arts and many other industries, and in our professional and personal lives, innovation can only happen with th…
Quantum Physics intermingles with Consciousness and Beyond
What is quantum physics? Quantum physics is a branch of physics also known as quantum mechanics or quantum theory. Mechanics is the part of physics …
Re-Thinking For A New Age
In our last thought piece , we explored the theory that, rather than living in a world where everyone hates to fail, why not adopt a rethink-respond- r…
Cultural Differences in Innovation
The effects of cultural differences for innovation are an interesting and extremely multifaceted topic. For most of us, it probably goes without saying…
Everyone Hates To Fail – Why Do You?
If you have ever had a significant setback, made a serious mistake, or failed at completing an important task, you will have experienced some kind of d…
Developing 21st-Century Superpowers For Leaders And Teams
Critical art of re-thinking The critical art of re-thinking involves being actively open-minded, hearted, and willed: To learning, and possibly…
Effecting transformational 21st-century learning
I was privileged to attend one of the very first Theory U Presencing Workshops, presented by the MIT Sloan School of Management all the way back in 200…
Reskilling and Upskilling People and Teams
The pandemic has increased the pace of change in a digitally accelerated world, and at the same time, it is forcing organisations, leaders, and teams t…
Managing Both the Present and the Future
In my last thought piece, I described the three characteristics that offer senior executives a “unique unfreezing opportunity” from the disruptive COVI…
Developing A Human-Centric Future-Fit Focus
In a recent article, “Organizing for the future: Nine keys to becoming a future-ready company” McKinsey and Co suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic has…
Co-Creating Future-Fitness
I recently opened the door to a threshold for a new kind of co-creative, collaborative and cohesive team spirit to catalyse change through “innovation …
Innovation Teams Don’t Innovate
In our first thought piece in this series, we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration. We then described the range of emergin…
Catalysing Change Through Innovation Teams
What makes Israel so innovative? And what has this got to do with teaming? One of the key discoveries we made when we relocated to Israel almost te…
How to digitise all the layers of your organisation?
Digitization became a buzzword: a simple search on the internet is enough to notice that the number of results is impressive: all the magazines dedica…
East meets West in understanding innovation cultural orientation
I lived for about fifteen years in Asia and the before, and in the in-between period, I travelled around the region a fair amount. Today less so, but …
Shifting to ultimate outcomes
Many organisations are struggling with their metrics and ways to measure the progress and success of their business. From this writer’s point of view…
How The Right Tools Can Help You Shape a More Innovative Culture
For a large organisation, culture change is incredibly difficult. As such, it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that we constantly hear managers stru…
The accidental persecution of the innovators
I took a personality test recently. This particular test was co-created by a thought leader I hold in high regard, American organisational psychologist…
Managing ideas at scale: Key principles
To streamline and accelerate innovation, companies need to integrate flexible processes and leverage advanced idea management technologies. Regardles…