Neurology of meetings
How does the cocktail of various brain chemicals impact how we get work done? When you have a better understanding of how the brain works, you are more…
Thought Leadership
Leadership is personal
The quest for leadership is an inner quest to discover who you are and what you care about. Through the process of self-examination, you find the aware…
A carnival of trivial ideas
Management leaders and innovators are celebrated across the world for being thought leaders and setting the pace in creating the future. This does ho…
Constructivism: The Philosophy of Education
How do we learn best? Constructivism can be equated to an important learning theory that all educators use to help their students learn. Constructi…
Strategies to prepare for the future of work
In the wake of social distancing and remote work, the way we work will be forever changed. Here are our top tips, strategies, and resources to prepare …
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 hav…
The Ivory Tower
Since the invention of the modern university in the 12th century, higher education institutions have always responded to fundamental changes in socie…
What makes up a winning innovation ecosystem of design?
There are four connecting themes that are shifting our ways to operate and innovate that provide a far greater set of dynamics by ’embracing’ an ecosys…
The wisdom of failure
For most in the corporate world failure is to be avoided at all costs, but why? What are the reasons failure has become a situation to avoid at all co…
Practising adaptive leadership
If we want to avoid endless hardship, conflict and ecological catastrophes, we must become ecologically literate – and deeply so. The future is, you mi…
Prepare for meetings like a surgeon
Treat meeting preparation like a surgeon prepares for surgery–strategically, meticulously, and with eyes wide open. These are the important must know…
Smokescreen
Given the emergencies facing humanity, it is essential that we develop a new set of obligations for each other, the next generation, and the planet. …
The swimmer, the fisherman, and the deep-sea diver
Using the ocean as a metaphor we can examine the differing knowledge states that exist, or must be acquired, depending on your degree of interaction wi…
Naturally speaking
We can learn a lot from nature in the way we work and organise ourselves. Various examples taken from the way nature cyclical flows work out clearly i…
The Imprint
Various experimental socio-economic agendas are being rolled out around the world in the wake of the present pandemic. Many opinions and laws have co…
Get the most out of Zoom for virtual facilitation
Planning a virtual workshop? Here are top tips from an expert facilitator for how to run the most successful virtual workshops using Zoom. …
An office working revolution?
The world as we know it has changed and we have but no choice to change with it. There are various reports that institutions are not going to let more …
COVID-19 Treasure Hunt: Turn lockdown into a better quality life (In 2 steps)
The collective pause due to Covid-19 lockdown teaches us not to resign to what unexpectedly goes on a stand-by mode in our lives. How can we transform …
Whatever Next!
A momentous moral drama is being played out around the Coronavirus pandemic. Will we learn from it and will it change the reality of the world we live …
Do Shorter Design Sprints Work?
In Richard Banfield’s book Enterprise Design Sprints, he talks about how Design Sprints have become “a trusted format for problem-solving at many large…