Sustainability is central to innovation’s future progress
Building a sustainable competitive advantage Today’s challenge for me is not only to be building the innovation capacity but also to be establishi…
Thought Leadership
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…
Hybrid Workshops
How to prioritise connection and attendee experience in a hybrid workshop If you are thinking about running a hybrid workshop, there’s a lot to consid…
The spirit speaks
After a busy day of e-mails, zoom meetings and a zoom delivered workshop on how to create high performing teams, I retreated to my usual decompression …
Why innovate energy?
Why innovate energy? The front end of energy means what exactly? It is the place I feel I can make the best contribution, a place where innovation thr…
The Art of Decision-making as an Innovation Leader
As we all know, innovating and creating something new is usually seen, for good reason, as an important, yet highly risky endeavour. As such, innovatio…
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…
Leadership is personal
The quest for leadership is an inner quest to discover who you are and what you care about, and it’s through this process of self-examination that you …
A carnival of trivial ideas
In the week in which Apple TV released their new documentary "The Year Earth Changed" with commentary by David Attenborough, which looks at the surpris…
Constructivism: The Philosophy of Education
Educators are completely able to use constructivist learning theory to help their students understand their previous knowledge. If you are a current ed…
Strategies to prepare for the future of work
What you need to know to get ahead of the changing nature of work In the wake of social distancing and remote work, the way we work will be forever ch…
The roles of risk and luck in innovation
One of the most controversial, and perhaps even misunderstood topics in innovation are the roles of risk and luck for innovation success. Do you have …
The Ivory Tower
Economists and bankers one day; university vice-chancellors the next! Life is never dull in the world of corporate philosophy. Especially when traditio…
What makes up a winning innovation ecosystem of design?
What can be gained by adopting a more open innovation ecosystem approach? As we recognise and push out through more open networking and relationships,…
The wisdom of failure
Most people will recognise the name Thomas Edison and conjure images of a successful inventor and innovator. In many regards, this is true. Edison in…
Practising adaptive leadership
There is something about the human mind and about the way we think that is at once quirky and persistently primitive: seriously out-of-kilter with cont…
Prepare for meetings like a surgeon
Imagine. You are going in for surgery. Before you get put under by the anesthesiologist, you ask if the surgeon and team are good to go. The anesthesio…
Smokescreen
As conspiracy theories circulate, churning around every conceivable deceit — from the origin of SARS-CoV-2, disinformation regarding mask-wearing, and …
The swimmer, the fisherman, and the deep-sea diver
Knowledge is the condition of understanding something which is personally meaningful, and potentially useful in some capacity. As such it is deeply sub…
Naturally speaking
In natural systems, physical matter flows in cycles. Nutrients from one form of life become food for another. Organisms live and die, eventually return…