Posts tagged Innovation
The shared lie of the 'Magic Number' is destroying innovation in your organisation

The shared lie of the 'Magic Number' is destroying innovation in your organisation!

Embrace uncertainty, to the point where it is reflected in the business cases for genuinely innovative ideas.

Thanks to Tristan Kromer and Elijah Eilert from Innovation Metrics Podcast for the insights and inspiration!

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"That doesn't work here": just how creative should you be when experimenting with Change?

"Nice idea...but that doesn't work here"

Fair enough, it's your organisation and your culture...so I'll believe you. But I also take guidance from a Thomas Edison quote: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Neither of us has time or budget for 10,000 failed ways, so let's run some well thought out change experiments and get successful change happening sooner and smoother! In this article I introduce our Fourth Principle of Change, which is underpinned by creativity: "Learn Together through Experimentation." I lay out my top five Change experiments (aka: spoiler alerts for working with me...) and give ways to get started in even the most conservative environment.

If you've got a poor change culture or the 'bad vibes' are still lingering in the hallways from the last organisational change, then I'd argue you can't afford to ignore creative approaches to change; reasons stands that if you do the same things, you'll get the same results. #changeleadership #leanchange #leadership

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