If more beautiful questions have so much to offer us, particularly as we wake up to the imperative of ‘curiosity’ at work, why don’t we spend time thinking consciously about how we question, and aiming to improve the questions we ask?
Category Archives: Business
Unleashing the big C
I recently took part in a Connectle on Innovation Mindsets. The panel of speakers was impressive and inspiring. Take Ira Munn from Ierospace. Ira is changing the world, one Drop at a time. Later this year he will launch The Drop, a 3D-printed, energy-efficient, electric vehicle kit made from up-cycled local plastic, like the plasticContinue reading “Unleashing the big C”
Top picks 2017: Adam Grant, John Sanei, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Naval Ravikant
These are my top picks for 2017. They all point to a recognition, an awareness that is bubbling and rising. As individuals and organisations, we’re coming to know that we have influence, but that the influence we have can be shaped, developed and directed in more profound ways. The works I have highlighted below askContinue reading “Top picks 2017: Adam Grant, John Sanei, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Naval Ravikant”
Create a Massive Transformative Purpose
Many organisations remain unclear about their purpose. When asked, Why does your organisation exist? they answer: ‘to make money’. Money is essential, but making money is not a purpose. Read the inspirational classic from psychiatrist Viktor Frankl: Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl practiced logotherapy, from the Greek word logos (‘meaning’), asserting that our primary driveContinue reading “Create a Massive Transformative Purpose”
Getting on with Artificial Intelligence
At the 2017 Robot Art Competition, robotic painters produced paintings like graduating art students, described as ‘aesthetically ambiguous’. The bearded face of a man stares out from one canvas, another depicts human emotion with jagged, gloomy stripes of black and purple. AI is a field of computer science that mimics the natural learning process of theContinue reading “Getting on with Artificial Intelligence”
The power lies with us, the people. Working with 5 tech trends.
By Gaylin Jee Accenture launched their Technology Vision report earlier this year, which identifies the top IT trends impacting organisations over the next 3 years. The theme of the report is “Technology for people, by People”. They say this people empowering focus is not just an idea. Rather, it’s a real and purposeful call to action. BecauseContinue reading “The power lies with us, the people. Working with 5 tech trends.”
Risk-takers, Originals and all of us
By Gaylin Jee “The last time you had an original idea, what did you do with it?” Adam Grant We’re still using yesterday’s models and hoping they will solve tomorrow’s challenges. That’s not impossible, but it will become increasingly unrewarding. The proposed and impending World Economic Forum’s Fourth Industrial Revolution is set to radically shiftContinue reading “Risk-takers, Originals and all of us”
What is your company’s Mindset Orientation?
Even a giant can streamline, increase speed and encourage innovation.
Exponential organisations #future #business #innovation
Exponential organisations are designed for abundance. And they’re the ones most likely to survive longer term.
Let’s try Deep Work, a 21st Century superpower
By Gaylin Jee Absorb state is one of 7 ways to boost your creativity. But what is absorb state? When you are in absorb state, you spend time only consuming information. You are not creating or delivering any output. The concept is also referred to as ‘batching’. It replaces what Linda Stone calls ‘continuous partial attention’,Continue reading “Let’s try Deep Work, a 21st Century superpower”
Disrupt yourself
By Gaylin Jee The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker. Looking at what the future holds should be like looking at we want to create. As Vala Afshar notes, companies do not disrupt, people do. One drives innovation and disruption in the organisation through driving personal disruption. And accordingContinue reading “Disrupt yourself”
Think differently – do differently #FutureWork
Grow and support appetites for thinking and doing differently. Get your head around a new set of roles, like the Game Changers, Play Makers and Polishers too. If not for your organisation, at least for yourself.
The wisdom to engage the group, and other new rules of work
We can write the new rules of work.
What is your remarkable? Are you selling it?
Create and sell things that are remarkable, that you believe in. The other options are not only boring, they’re dead in the water.
People want power because they want autonomy
Do we want power to control others through our influence, or is it more about increasing our own autonomy?
Are you ready for a game-changing future?
Game Changers use the chaos of rapid change and advancement to fuel organisation competitiveness and success. We want them in our organisations. We need them. But are we ready for them, and how do we set them up for success?
A value proposition for the future
What’s your value proposition for the future? I have a few questions to reflect on. Here’s the context. More than a few individuals and businesses are ‘doing’ social media, seemingly because everyone else is doing it. There is a mix of urge, rush, relish and reticence to be present, present on platforms that are fast-growingContinue reading “A value proposition for the future”
Superman is dead, and other thoughts on leadership
What do these words describe? Sense-making, visioning, inventing, relating. It’s the MIT Sloan 4 Capabilities Leadership Framework. How many leadership development programmes have a mainframe like this, how many leaders in organisations are developing these critical – some might say ethereal – components of leadership? I can think of a few leadership pointers thatContinue reading “Superman is dead, and other thoughts on leadership”
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