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The Unknown, the Future, and the Impossible

January 11, 2010

“We sell our souls at the altar of the incremental.”
Well, we do if we embrace the view that that change is slow and steady, and comes out of what came before.
But what if it doesn’t?  What if change is radical, disruptive, breakthrough?
Innovation is always a matter of the dialog between these two poles, between the [...]

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Don’t Let the Collaborative Event Tail Wag the Project Dog

December 31, 2009

I’ve been facilitating and supporting face to face collaborative events for over 25 years and sometimes have to watch against an event-centric approach in my work. Of course a major collaborative event involving perhaps hundreds of participants and spanning several days must be well designed. The event must have objectives and deliverables. It must have [...]

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Creative Tension: Blessing, Curse, and Essential

December 16, 2009

A landmark event occurred yesterday.  Well, a minor landmark in any case.  I was on a long flight, and the airline was playing a movie that I actually wanted to see.  (As you can tell, my definition of a landmark has become rather modest these days…)
It was a movie about creativity and innovation, a movie [...]

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Celebrating Failure (Intelligent Failure that is)

December 3, 2009

The Tata Group is one of India’s most successful and most admired companies.   From its founding in 1868, the company has grown to encompass about 100 different corporate entities, and employs tens of thousands.  The firm’s business units make cars & trucks, steel, tea, electricity, chemicals, consulting services, software, and just about everything else.  You [...]

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Sustainability Evolves from Fad To Force

July 2, 2009

Sustainability is evolving quickly to become a major force in business practices and in business models. One of the best ways to think about sustainability is the triple bottom line model. This model speaks to developing business models that can show profit in three major areas – environment, economic, and social.
Sustainability holds the seeds of [...]

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Planning for the Unthinkable Through Relentless Innovation

June 29, 2009

Joshua Cooper Ramo’s new book, The Age of the Unthinkable, provides a useful portrait of our difficult times, and an even more useful set of frameworks for how we ought to be dealing with it.
Ramo shares insights he has gathered through dialog with some of what appear to be the world’s most interesting thought leaders [...]

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