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Change Isn’t About Persuasion. It’s About Power

Digital Tonto

In 2013, the political scientist Moisés Naím published The End of Power, in which he argued that because of the increase in mobility and technology and decrease in poverty, the power of institutions was diminishing. Unfortunately, few seem to learn this basic principle of change. The post Change Isn’t About Persuasion.

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How having children makes fathers’ brains less imaginative

Idea to Value

Everyone knows that having a child changes your life. But did you know that it also physically changes a parents’ brain? The difference between the two scans could then be used to calculate changes in brain volume across different brain regions. And what they found was surprising.

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To Beat the Workforce Shortage, Reimagine the Workforce

Business and Tech

Leilanna Barrentes is a perfect example of the change that can happen when women are given an opportunity. She had no background or experience in the construction field when she started her pre-apprenticeship training in September 2013. It is time to change the face of construction. Helping women in action.

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What is ‘True Creativity’? (part 2 of 5)

Idea to Value

Projects that would fundamentally change the company, and take them into the future. So in 2013, I started up Improvides , then soon afterwards Ideatovalue.com , and I have made it my mission since then to figure out what actually helps new ideas happen. Or so everyone thought. What I wanted was to help companies actually innovate.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Innovate and Persuade with a Well-Judged Nudge

Destination Innovation

Changing the default position – e.g. so that everyone is enrolled into a pension scheme unless they deliberately opt out. In 2013 the BIT sent out thousands of letters to school students from poor backgrounds, who typically did not apply to top universities.

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Top Posts of 2022

Digital Tonto

At the beginning of this year, I wrote that the theme for 2022 would be Surviving Change and I think that’s been borne out. Top Posts of 2013. We’ve had so many shocks to the system that all of the happy talk about disruption has become not only juvenile and naive, but downright irresponsible. Top Posts for 2014.