Knowing the Race Your Running
To run a long-haul race with no visible end means to care for yourself and know that is the race you are running.
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psychology
Human behaviour, motivation, and psychology
Innovation: The Art and Science of Change Series
Innovation can be quite the buzzword — but what does it actually mean in practice? What knowledge, skills and tools do we need to actually DO innovation? I get asked that a lot and when the world seems to be transforming before us more people are asking: how do we shape some of these forces
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Middle Ground
When ideas and opinions push to the extreme finding where the middle ground is becomes an innovation challenge. Darling I don’t know why I got to extremesToo high or too low there ain’t no in-betweensAnd if I stand or I fallIt’s all or nothing at allDarling I don’t know why I got to extremes The
The More Things Change
Aphorisms about change and stability abound and the truths they tell can set us free if we listen. We’ve all heard the aphorisms. The only constant is change. We need to change to stay the same. The more things do change, the more they remains as they are. These paradoxical statements have truth to them
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Innovation’s Fear Factor
The fear of failure are reasons why our best work never sees the light of day ; gaming can make us braver. It seems absurd to imagine an organization devoting months of staff time, attention, and money to a project that has been executed perfectly only to have it never launch. Welcome to the world
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Mistaken Expertise
When we confuse expertise in one thing with another we risk distrusting experts altogether and losing what they bring. An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until finally he knows everything about nothing. This tongue-in-cheek quote from Henry Mintzberg has much truth to it. As I’ve developed as a
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Learning’s Problems
Learning is the key to innovation and resilience and it also presents us with problems. Developmental evaluation, adaptive strategy, and learning organizations are a few of the concepts used to reflect an attitude of responsiveness and innovation. We pivot, flex, adapt, and are resilient — or so we tell ourselves. In some cases we are
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But/And: A Psychology of Dualism
Replace the word ‘but’ with ‘and’ to change not only your language, but your worldview, too.
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The Gratitude Mindset (Why it Matters)
Being grateful makes us feel good and helps us find what important things to focus on when developing a strategy for innovating and moving ahead.
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