It’s an intense 12 minute talk covering the seismic impact of social media on business and how organisations can thrive in the collaborative age. Click on the 3rd video above to watch it now. Read more.
End of Tax Year Toolkit OfferThinking how to make the most of your remaining budget? Why not pilot our toolkit and see how it performs at empowering your team and shifting your culture towards the collaborative and the innovative. To help kick-start the process, orders of over 20 toolkits will now be shipped with 50% extra units for free. Orders must be recived by end of March 2010. Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) us now to order. Read more.
The public and 3rd sectors must evolve if they want to innovate.New article by Nick Jankel on overcoming the many barriers to collaboration in government. In Public Finance magazine.Read more.
Special offer to celebrate new US office opening in California.To celebrate our new US office opening, we are offering a 40% discount on all toolkit orders over 10 until 14th December! .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to grab yours. Read more.
Nick to Keynote at The Economist’s The Big Rethink: Redesigning Business Summit in Feb 2010 Read Nick Jankel’s Guardian article (July 8th) on collaboration in the public sphereRead it at: http://tinyurl.com/nnzhrl Read more.
The Economist: Thriving in the Collaborative Age
Keynote at The Economist’s ’The Big Rethink’ Summit on how to thrive in the collaborative age of social media, the digital revolution and the rewired world it is forming.
Keynote given at EuroDisney to British A-Level students on ethical leadership, including Toyota Recall Case Study
Intro to innovation. Given at ’Innovation Yorkshire’, 2010.
The assumptions at the heart of the unsustainable economic system and how to encourage profound and permanent shifts in mindsets towards sustainability. Given at CUBO Annual Conference, Dec 2009
Institute of Directors on Entrepreneurship
Talk part of Global Entrepreneurship Week at IOD in London on the tips no-one tells you about how to make it big as a (social) entrepreneur and start up.
In a recent paper researching the actual act of intuiting within a number of oil industry CEOs (‘Lessons from “Good Minds”’) the researcher suggests that key to successful leverage of intuition by great leaders is the ‘programming’ of their unconscious intuitive mind through ongoing reflection on their experience - so that when they are asked to make a snap “gut” decision their sense organs Read more.
Open innovation and ‘kind learning’ culturesA recent report in the academic press, “Intuition in Organizations: Implications for Strategic Management”, states that intuition can take time to manifest fully, and often needs an ‘incubation period’ - where other connections and serendipitous insights can emerge “without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’’ (in the words of John Keats). It is difficult to “accommodate within organizational cultures that scorn fallibility and Read more.
Intuition, innovation and the bean countersIntuition is still a taboo subject in business - even though great leaders often claim that it is key to great decision-making they do so only in their memoirs. For example, Ray Kroc’s decision to buy the McDonald’s logo and Akio Moriata (the inventor of the Sony Walkman) stating that ‘creativity requires something more than the processing of information. It requires human thought, spontaneous intuition and a lot of courage.” The reason for the persistent denigration of intuition is that it Read more.
Successful Intuition: The Rules of ThumbIntuition is not the same as instinct and impulse (these last two are driven by our ‘animal’ brains, overwhelmed as they are by basic desires and fears). It is a talent that can - and must - be honed over time. Research into those with highly-developed domain expertise - such as fire-fighters and doctors - shows that their many past experiences Read more.
