Applying Innovation Thinking To Affordability Versus Sustainability Part 2
I recently wrote a thought piece “Affordability versus Sustainability – a cause to be addressed.” That piece looked at the shifts that I felt were …
Behaviour Observation
Affordability Versus Sustainability – A Cause To Be Addressed
The concept of sustainability is still being pushed out in the future for many of us. Why should we worry today? The “judgement” is that those eco-f…
Three Levels of Self-discipline
Which level are you in? For everyone, self-discipline is a very important way of self-management, and a self-disciplined person’s life is more enjoy…
Blissfully ignorant
Research conducted by Cornell University concludes that many people hold excessively favourable views of their own abilities - particularly the ability…
Innovation Accounting: The Failure of The Business Case
Co-Written by Future Shapers Tristan Kromer and Elijah Eilert. In times of uncertainty, we strive for predictability. The relentless pace of change dr…
5 Leadership musts in the new COVID-19 normal
Leadership is often the most singled-out contributor to success (or not) when discussing how we engage, enthuse and excite people working in organisati…
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 …
The mysteries of systemic acupuncture
Recently I have become involved in a number of conversations to do with transformation. It has become clear to me that when most people talk about tran…
The Thunberg Effect
Mohandas Gandhi said that when trying to make any change that challenges the morality of the status quo, your opponents will at first ignore you, laugh…
Nakedness of the Emperors
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so Mark Twain We all know what leadership is. …
The Power of Communication in COVID’19: Cascading through the new normal towards the next normal
We are not at the end of COVID ’19 but we are not at the beginning of it either. We are somewhere in between. In such a crisis situation, what can make…
How NOT to change someone’s behaviour
A few months ago I wrote about the powerful positive strategies my physio deployed to get me to change my behaviour for the better. They revolved aroun…
Three tips for working longevity
Hmm.... the dreaded L-word. No, I'm not talking about "the" L-word that makes hearts skip a beat the first time it's uttered to a significant other. I…
The ecosystem relationship of a rain forest is also how innovation interreacts and works effectively
Firstly I would argue that innovation, to be managed well, needs to operate like an ecosystem, the same as a tropical rainforest. For ecosystems to fl…
The future of managing learning will be through ecosystems and platforms
I am constantly drawn to ecosystems and platforms as the connecting mechanism that can drive the need for greater collaboration, sharing, and exchangin…
The fool on the hill
The Fool on the Hill is a song by the Beatles which appeared on their 1967 album Magical Mystery Tour. The words describe the titular "fool" - a solita…
Fanning the flames of post-pandemic fictions
Recently I was captivated by an interview Anton Roux at ADC conducted with Martin Wolf – the Associate Editor and chief economics commentator at the Fi…
Craving Novelty, but not like the virus
Around 6:57 PM every evening since early April, hundreds of people begin to emerge from their perches hanging on the steel and glass towers where I liv…
Made in China – Social Credit, Coronavirus, 5G
Is Coronavirus-19 the catalyst for a UK or even global social credit system? And if so, what would that mean for our productivity, adaptability, freedo…
You Never Can Tell!
My mother would come out with the quaintest of pronouncements. One favourite turn of phrase, after listening to the nightly news on the wireless, was: …