I hope I am wrong… In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Frederick Taylor introduced a management approach that would fundamentally change the industrial world. With tools as basic as a pen, ledger, and stopwatch, Taylor meticulously observed and recorded the activities of factory workers, aiming to enhance efficiency through what he termed “scientific management.” […]

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”― Albert Camus “The idea that you can self reward the effort process is extremely powerful. Because what it means is that if you can recognize agitation, stress, and confusion as an entry point to where you eventually want to go, even just mental recognition can allow people to pass

“When disruptive change appears on the horizon, managers need to assemble the capabilities to confront the change before it has affected the mainstream business. In other words, they need an organization that is geared toward the new challenge before the old one, whose processes are tuned to the existing business model, has reached a crisis

Many many of our subscribers asked me to narrate the Thursday Thought, I have found a way to do that efficiently, see YouTube here: https://medium.com/media/b10fbe5cd2858df989e3d1104d0435f6/href “In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.” — Bertrand Russell “The greatest danger in times of turbulence

“Your older son is your intellect. He says, oh, don’t do this, don’t do that. He’s trying to reconcile make sense of a prosaic and material world. The younger son being the wild feral entity that he is wants to go out in the world and find out what it’s all about. So in his

We have a a final few early bird tickets for the Reinvention Summit still available. Friend of the Innovation Show Alexander Osterwalder joins a stellar line up including Rita McGrath, Seth Godin, Patagonia Chairman Charles Conn, Former Harvard Business School Dean Kim Clark and mant more.. It is going to be fantastic. If you buy

“The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever

“Incorporating uncertainty into the way we think about our beliefs comes with many benefits. By expressing our level of confidence in what we believe, we are shifting our approach to how we view the world. Acknowledging uncertainty is the first step in measuring and narrowing it. Incorporating uncertainty in the way we think about what

“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.” — John Maynard Keynes. In the dying moments of Super Bowl XLIX, a coaching decision became one of the most debated in football history. With just 26 seconds left on the clock and the Seattle Seahawks down by four points at the

“Whenever smart and well-intentioned people avoid confronting obstacles, they disempower employees and undermine change.”― John Kotter “Since the strength of the chain is determined by the weakest link, then the first step to improve an organisation must be to identify the weakest link.”― Eliyahu Goldratt [TL;DR In the world of strategy and innovation, the key to success