Explorer by Unidcolor “Companies need to figure out how to execute and innovate in parallel.” — Steve Blank (Innovation Show Episode 194) Recently, my 6-year-old son completed all the LEGO sets, which he had received as Christmas…
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The Hull of Your Ship: Mental Biofouling
“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 Biofouling is the technical name for the crusting of barnacles,…
Organisational Man O’War: Collaboration > Competiton
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” ― Charles Darwin One of the most unusual creatures I have learned about is…
Business Must Play in order to Thrive
Wallco “Man’s maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga proposed humans be called Homo Ludens (playful beings) rather than Homo…
“S”hadow Business: Integrating the Human in Business
AlphaCoders “We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little:…
Business SeaHorse? — Business Organisms
Alphacoders “ In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any…
Managing Contrasts, Managing Tensions
“The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.” — Carl Jung The Bathtub Thought Experiment I recently ran this thought experiment to illustrate to my children that…
Corporate Time Warps and The Semmelweis Effect
Time is Relative ”The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.” — Niccolo Machiavelli A farmer is sitting on his porch in a chair, hanging out. A friend walks up to the porch to say…
Red Queens, Red Oceans or Red Teams?
https://dribbble.com/rachelthegreat “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” ― Heraclitus This quote is by pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus who lived 535 — c….
The S-tockdale Paradox — Business Ambidexterity and S-urviving Disruption
WallDevil Paradox = a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true On September 9th 1965, while flying on a mission over North Vietnam, commander…