Innovation to Your Inbox
Of the many ways to reach people, email still works. Sometimes innovation is best doing new things with old tools.
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organizational change
What change and pool diving have in common
Change is much like taking a dive off the high diving board. It’s risks and perceptions are never what you think until you get to the top of the diving board, look down, and jump.
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Putting our organizations on the couch
Creating change through rational planning only gets us halfway there. Looking inward will take us the rest of the journey.
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Same and Different
Our ability to affect change in organizations and systems is based heavily on our assumptions about similarities and differences between
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Utility in Design-Driven Evaluation
Design-driven evaluation focuses attention on what organization’s use in their decision-making and learning to support the creation of their products,
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The Developmental Psychology of Organizations
Every living thing has a journey that starts somewhere and ends eventually. Our ability to see this, understand it, and
Read moreReframing change
Change is one of the few universal constants as things — people, planet, galaxy — are always in some state
Read moreExploding goals and their myths
Goal-directed language guides much of our social policy, investment and quests for innovation without much thought of what that means
Read moreActing on Failure or Failure to Act?
Who would have thought that failure would be held up as something to be desired just a few years ago?
Read moreThe New Zombie
Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.
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