The eight essentials to innovation
Top innovators work with transformative change differently. Read all about it and see how you can ignite change in your own organisation.
Fear factor: Overcoming human barriers to innovation
Worries about failure, criticism, and career impact hold back many people from embracing innovation. Here’s how to create a culture that accounts for the human side of innovation.
How virtual work is accelerating innovation
The age of assuming that innovation requires physical proximity is over. Innovators are embracing a new model.
The power of curiosity: For you as a leader and for your team
As a leader, curiosity can be directly attributed to higher levels of engagement and collaboration within a team or the broader organisation. Fostering a culture of inquisitiveness will also invite your team members to be more comfortable asking questions – of themselves, of each other, of you, and of the business in general. Check out our post to appreciate the power of curiosity for you as a leader and for your team.
The science of curiosity
Taking an interest can lead to a longer, better life.
How kindness at work encourages creativity
CEO Andrew Swinand shares how working mindfully became the norm at Leo Burnett Group, and the simple practices that have helped to unlock new levels of creativity and innovation across his teams.
6 ways team leaders inspire creativity and innovation
Continuous change is the norm in most organisations today. Companies are constantly innovating and working to stay ahead of their competition and, in some cases, just to sustain in a changing marketplace. So how to you inspire creativity and innovation?
Creating an innovation culture
With industry disruption and tech changes accelerating, Corning’s Silicon Valley Technology Chief shares how to stay creative over the long haul.
Why digital transformation is now on the CEO’s shoulders
Big data, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence hold such disruptive power that they have inverted the dynamics of technology leadership.
The adaptable mind
The Adaptable Mind asks the question: what are the skills we need to flourish in the 21st Century? Los Angeles-based professor and artist, Mary Beth Heffernan, was listening to coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and how isolating and traumatic it must be for patients to interact only with hazmat suits for weeks on end.
She thought, “what if they put pictures of their faces on the front of the suits?” Thousands of hurdles later, Mary Beth’s story reveals that, while there is a lot of fear that technology is displacing our jobs, the skills we need most in the 21st Century — curiosity, creativity, taking initiative, multi-disciplinary thinking, and empathy — happen to be skills that machines don’t have; only humans have.