Systems of Influence: The Hidden Forces Shaping What We Do
Staying safe is about understanding systems that affect our choices, not just individuals. We need to design systems better if we want real change to take place.
July 2020
The Constant (Innovation) Gardener
A gardener’s mindframe is what distinguishes a true innovator from the rest. We look at four qualities which show how.
Not Working vs Wrong
Change is hard because our identities often depend on us being right, even when we are not. Understanding the myths we hold to can be a means to get past this and make real change and make it stick.
Space, Place, & Creativity
The way we design our spaces and think about them shape what happens in them. We look at four ideas for how to innovate better in space.
Learning Myths & The Learner
The idea that we have a learning ‘style’ is a myth; let’s stop perpetuating it and engage learners instead. While I was teaching in a program for young social entrepreneurs one of the learners approach me and said they were struggling with some of the reading materials and discussions because they were a ‘visual learner.’ …
Doing Nothing: An Innovation Paradox
Strategy in chaos is like whitewater rafting — it needs stillness among the motion. Sometimes the best transformation and boldest action is doing nothing.
Shifting Your Innovation Goals & Goalposts
What if the best way to accomplish a goal was to not have one or to keep it changing? That’s innovation. If you tightly define what you want, and succeed, all you get is exactly what you expected. You are limited by your own goal. – Robert Poynton I was recently speaking with one of my …
Futures for Education, Learning and Work
The shift to online education by universities is going to be a big experiment in learning and survival and it’s not clear that they will achieve either.
Beautiful Innovation
Aesthetics and beauty are often dismissed, but they can be enormous catalysts and supports for innovation.