Emotional Honesty in Designing Change
Innovation is emotional work and it’s time to connect our feelings and thoughts to fuel our change efforts and actions.
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organizational psychology
Innovation for the Real World
Why does most of what we read about innovation resemble very little of what our work life actually looks like?
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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.
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Innovation Psychology
Highlights on innovation psychology inspired by the Censemaking Newsletter. Today we dive a little further into some of the headlines
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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.
Read moreGenetic engineering for your brand
DNA doesn’t predetermine our future as biological beings, but it does powerfully influence it. Some have applied the concept of ‘DNA’
Read moreLearning fails in bad systems
Enormous energy is spent on developing strategies to accomplish things with comparatively little paid to the systems that they are
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 moreA Beautiful Idea
Is what you do, where you work, or how you organize, beautiful? Among the many words used to describe our
Read moreThe Mindful Socially Innovative Organization
In complex systems there is a lot to pay attention to. Mindfulness and contemplative inquiry built into the organization can
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