“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…
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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…
Reframing Fear — Growing Pains
“If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a…
Cassandra Communication in Innovation
Cassandra: Cursed to tell prophecies that no one would believe — Anthony Frederick Sandys (1829–1904) In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a princess of Troy. The God Apollo gave her the power of prophecy in order to seduce…
Demonising the Gainsayers — Corporate Pirates
AlphaCoders “All human advances occur in the outlaw area” — Buckminster Fuller gainsay: “contradict,” c.1300, literally “say against,” from Old English gegn- “against” This week’s guest on the Innovation show is social entrepreneur Sam Conniff Allende, author…
Here’s to the crazy ones
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” — Albert Einstein The Roger Bannister Effect For a very long time, people thought it was impossible to run a mile under…
Where there is no vision, the people perish
“Where there is no vision, the people perish” — Proverbs 29:18 Alphcoders The Hebrew word paw-rah’ means “to perish”. Paw-rah’ was the word used in a biblical proverb where a woman’s hair was let flow out of its…
Is the Why bigger than the Try?
Alphacoders “If your reason isn’t big enough, your excuses will be” Many people believe there is no possible way that humans built the pyramids of Egypt. The craftsmanship of the great pyramids surely could not have…
Wolves don’t lose sleep over the opinion of Sheep
Alphacoders “In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to…
The leader sets the tone of any organisation, no matter how big or small, no matter if it is an…
TheThursdayThought.com “Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organisation.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson The leader sets the tone of any organisation, no matter how big or…