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Four Lenses of Corporate Innovation

Four Lenses of Corporate Innovation

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Innovation as a Holistic, System-Wide Journey Over the years, I’ve partnered with large organizations grappling with the complexities of innovation. … Read More

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Planning Fallacy

Outsmart the Planning Fallacy

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We fool ourselves in planning. Stop that. Plan smarter. We spend a lot of energy on planning. But, as the … Read More

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Navigating Uncertainty, Handling Complexity - Leadership Skills Development

Navigating Uncertainty, Handling Complexity (Session Recording)

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Synopsis: Thanks to the popular “VUCA” acronym, the ability to manage enterprises and lead teams in volatile, uncertain, complex and … Read More

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Separating Thinking Doing Time Blue Red Work

Separating Thinking & Doing Time: Learnings from David Marquet’s “Blue & Red Work”

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David Marquet’s “Blue & Red Work” Red Work: Doing Time We continue to be haunted by the ghosts of Taylorism … Read More

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Get yourself unstuck with non-linear thinking. Try lateral, divergent & convergent, and mosaic thinking.

Get Unstuck with Non-Linear Thinking

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Inductive, deductive reasoning and Design Thinking

Deductive and Inductive Reasoning and the Divergent, Convergent Double Diamond in Design Thinking

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There’s science and philosophy behind Design Thinking’s divergent and convergent double diamond. It’s the logic of deductive and inductive reasoning. … Read More

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know do vs know design do

From Know-Do to Know-[Stop/Think/Design/Make]-Do

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We are highly functioning professionals. When we see a pattern, we know what to do. So, Know-Do. The challenge of … Read More

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Design Thinking is non-sequential

The non-linear, non-sequential nature of Design Thinking

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Design Thinking is process driven. It is a process to help us activate our creativity. Meanwhile, our brains don’t necessarily … Read More

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Liberating Structures

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Liberating Structures is a collection of powerful team exercises curated by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless (www.liberatingstructures.com). The following slides … Read More

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Systems Thinking | Mental Model Dōjō | agile-od.com | Lifecycle

Systems Thinking

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We tend to confront complex, dynamic realities with a language designed for simple, static problems: normal verbal language extracts simple, … Read More

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