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These are other ideas - they are in no particular order – go exploring you never know what you might find…
Hedgehogs
and Foxs
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing..." so
goes the Isaiah Berlin parable, and so too does the idea when applied to successful
organisations.
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In Praise
of Slow
Battle weary, over-hyped, stressed-out. Our addiction
to speed in all things is quickly taking it's toll. But around
the world there is a movement calling on each of us to slow
it down.
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Humour
Me
We don't have to take it all quite so seriously,
all the time. Stuff happens – whether you want it to
or not. Why don't we use more humor to handle our business
ups and downs?
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Success
by Another Measure
Pure profitability isn't enough, what if we
asked businesses to add a social component to the question
of what marks their success?
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Let's
Talk
We all tell stories every day, not the "fibs" of
our youth, but about our experiences, about the things we
see and do...
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Climb
Without the Ladder
Want to learn how to use your imagination to free yourself
from the facts? Check out Harriet Rubin’s The New Merchant of Light inspired by...
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Who
is in your "Mars Group"?
How many times have you been locked in a beige hotel conference room for days trying to “craft” the company vision statement or “create” the neat PowerPoint friendly list of company values…only to do it all again next year?
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Escape from Flatland
Shouldn’t we be consciously trying to break away from our traditional limits of thinking and action? What if we allowed ourselves to be freely influenced by a more four dimensional way of looking at things?
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The Logic of Failure
Everyday we all deal with complex problems and situations. But how often do we stop to think through all the associated pieces to truly understand the potential long-term outcomes of our actions? Not nearly enough according to author Dietrich Dorner.
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"The Quantum Theory of Trust"
We all know the mantra. The network IS the organization – of the present and the future. In these days of virtually non-existent competitive advantage can any of us afford not to understand how to make our human networks visible?
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The Knowledge Expedition
Limited by our areas or expertise and overwhelmed by the sheer volume, we exist immersed in a kind of knowledge vacuum. If we were to find a more interrelated way to access knowledge could we inspire new ways of thinking and understanding?
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Girl Power
“Women control or influence 80% or all purchases of both consumer goods and services”* – a startling statistic that is driving more than just advertising trends.
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