https://www.deviantart.com/murilo-araujo/art/agriculture-sketch-30-min-431985993 “When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertiliser or more water or less sun….
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When Your Organisation Stops Learning, Your Organisation Starts Dying
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw Studies tell us that retirement is not the key to a blissful life. Retirement does not bring…
Change or Transformation? Sheep-dip Innovation or Committed Innovation?
“Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.” — Stanley McChrystal In a business environment characterised rapid change being flexible and adaptable to change is an increasingly coveted skill. Change is…
Dopamine-Driven Disruption — Neurochemical Diversity
“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger Initially, scientists understood the neurochemical…
Appreciating the Staples — Shiny New Things and Janus Innovation
DeviantArt “You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past.” — Bob Iger Throughout history, women did the gathering and…
The Purpose of Innovation Is So Experiments Die So Organisations Don’t Have To
https://www.deviantart.com/marijeberting/art/Male-seahorse-giving-birth-see-amazing-video-712467236 “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical…
Learning and Innovation Go Hand in Hand
In the late 1800s, clergyman and scholar William Pollard said, “Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” Pollard…
In Harmony — Chief Orchestral Officers (COOs) and Sympathetic Resonance
“If you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.” — Nikola Tesla If I placed two pianos next to each other and stuck a key on one piano,…
The Chinese Room, The Chaos Room, and Left-Brained Business
Out_of_balance_by_acrylicdreams_contrasts In 1980, American philosopher John Searle proposed a thought experiment known as The Chinese Room. Searle imagined himself locked in a room with a box of Chinese characters he cannot understand and a book…
Diversity, Collaboration, and Avoiding Famine
“Diversity is being asked to the ball, inclusion is being asked to dance, collaboration is everyone dancing together, choosing the music and the venue.” From 1845 to 1849, the Great (Potato) Famine wiped out one…