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Jeff Bezos’ Rule: What will not change?

Idea to Value

Many innovators and strategists are obsessed with predicting how the world will change in the future. But often, it can be even more valuable to figure out what will not change in the future. I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’

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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

An American Geophysicist, Cox and his colleagues were instrumental in developing a way to measure the changes in the Earth’s magnetic alignment and the geomagnetic polarity time scale. In June 2012, in honor of Alan Turing, Hall published an article in Linux Magazine announcing that he is gay. Lana and Lilly Wachowski.

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A Lateral Way to Expose War Crimes and Fight Disinformation

Destination Innovation

In 2012 in his blog ‘Brown Moses’, he posted articles with videos from the civil war in Syria. Bellingcat has received many awards and honours and it has changed how news and intelligence agencies gather and verify stories using OSINT methods. The Bellingcat web site was blocked for Russian users.

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5 Behaviours to Lead Successful Change

Innovation Excellence

Just how do leaders energise their people to embrace change? The need for change is constant in a constantly changing business environment. Unfortunately, the failure rate of change projects has little changed in recent years, despite the increasing use of agile methods.

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Functional fixedness bias, and how to overcome it

Idea to Value

As described by Anthony McCaffrey in 2012 , the GPT asks a series of two questions to participants when they are being challenges with describing an object: “Can this be decomposed further?”. There are other variants of fixedness which also limit innovation thinking, such as structural or relational fixedness.

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

Idea to Value

Another 2012 study showed that pretend play and creativity were also linked. A 2010 study showed that children see more value in creatively changing an object than other changes, and this effect is much more powerful than in adults. This implies that children value creativity in their peers highly.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

He created a sense of urgency to undertake the changes ahead. In 2012 Lego launched ‘Lego Friends’ with a more realistic ‘mini-doll’ Sales to girls tripled. The father of four told his colleagues, “We are on a burning platform. We’re running out of cash… and likely won’t survive.” Collaborate to innovate.