Soon, organisations both big and small will consist of some combination of smart robots, algorithms, and humans to varying degrees (many do already). Covid-19 will be an accelerant towards digitisation, automation and artificial intelligence as organisations scramble to automate as many tasks as possible before the next lock down. Where does this leave the human as job and skill requirements adapt to what upcoming guest on the Innovation Show Ed Hess calls “The Smart Machine Age”?
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Halo or Horns — Ingroup/Outgroup Bias Kills Innovation and Motivation
“Each group nourishes its own pride and vanity, boasts itself superior, exists in its own divinities, and looks with contempt on outsiders.” — William Graham Sumner, 1906 You are a changemaker within an organisation. Your suggestion will…
Shooting the Messenger — The MUM Effect, Psychological Safety and Innovation
Killing the Messenger “The 300” Copyright Warner Brothers “Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.” — John Wooden In 1997, Korean Air Flight 801 crashed while on approach to an airport…
All Roads Lead To The Future Back — A Vision and Spoke Model
The Romans gave us a network of roads. Apple gave us the Digital Hub. Leaders, it is time to give your people a vision, which they can execute. In this post-Covid world, vision is more important than ever before.
“If you can hold it in your head, you can hold it in your hand.” — Bob Proctor
The Organisational Noosphere and The Maharishi Effect
“Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.” — Nikola Tesla If you placed two pianos…
Odyssey Leadership, Sandcastle Strategy or Surfing Mindset
https://www.deviantart.com/aquasixio/art/It-was-fun-while-it-lasted-638713529 “Making good judgments and acting wisely when one has complete data, facts, and information is not leadership. It’s not even management. It’s bookkeeping. Leadership requires ability to make wise decisions and act responsibly upon…
A New Age of Co-opetition and Collaboration
Yin and Yang by Jojoesart “Life cannot reach its highest potential, in fact, cannot exist without a harmonious blend of competition and cooperation. Only in a harmonious, oscillating dance of both competition and cooperation can…
Internal Models of Reality and Caring for our Future Generations
“Out of the lumber of things we are taught, the gravel and cement of our experience and the nails of the things we observe, we slowly erect an edifice, an unconscious, internal temple of reality,…
Scarcity Drives Frugal Innovation: Using Our Fantasie
“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” — Jeff Bezos This study in Infant Behaviour and Development…
The World is Cocooning: Nothing in a Caterpillar Tells you it’s Going to be a Butterfly
https-//www.deviantart.com/luisbc/art/Butterfly-Wings-380563029 “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”― Buckminster R. Fuller You will be familiar with the symbol of the butterfly to represent metamorphosis, transformation and change….