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Avoid Addition Bias – Crop the Photo

Destination Innovation

Nature magazine recently published a paper with the headline – People Systematically Overlook Subtractive Changes. We investigated whether people are as likely to consider changes that subtract components from an object, idea or situation as they are to consider changes that add new components. ‘We

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How Open-Minded Are You? Quick Quiz.

Destination Innovation

In the last 12 months have you changed your mind on any significant topic? Have you changed your position on any big political, moral or societal issue? Can you take on board criticism and change (yes) or do you push back? Can you take on board criticism and change (yes) or do you push back?

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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. Leonardo da Vinci.

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Josh Folk of IdeaScale Dishes with DotCom

IdeaScale

Josh Folk is a co-founder of IdeaScale, and he recently joined DotCom magazine for their Leader Round Table Interview series. The editorial team at DotCom Magazine awarded IdeaScale its Impact Company of 2019 Award, and Josh talked with Torrey Mastery of DotCom Magazine about innovation leadership. Do a reality check.”

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Breaking Taboos – Two Lessons for Innovators

Destination Innovation

They advertised in women’s magazines such as Good Housekeeping with the slogan ‘Kotex – Ask for it by Name.’ Many magazines hesitated to run adverts concerning something so unmentionable. Edward Bok, publisher of the highly influential Ladies Home Journal, banned the adverts from his range of magazines.

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Jack Welch’s GE Was The Wrong Model To Take From The 90s. Lou Gerstner’s IBM Is The Right One

Digital Tonto

When Jack Welch was named “Manager of the Century” by Fortune magazine in 1999, it was still unclear what his legacy was going to be. Yet all the success belied serious problems rumbling underneath the surface. Welch increased profits largely by “financializing” the firm. Innovation languished.

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A Vital Change Management Strategy Role: Sharing an Innovation Vocabulary

BrainZooming

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? As we worked on strategic thinking exercises to explore the company’s future vision and user experience, the change management strategy vocabulary the group used was conventional, unemotional, and lacking innovative thinking. – Mike Brown.