This is the second blog in a series of 3 blogs, by Janet Sernack, on cultivating a fail fast culture. In my previous blog “What does it mean to cultivate a fail fast organizational culture” I shared what typically happens when people experience failure, and how important it is to uncouple people’s fears about failure and to support and enable ...
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What is a “Fail Fast” Organizational Culture?
How could developing a “fail fast” culture help organizations unfreeze, survive, flow and flourish with the current levels of fear, ambiguity, uncertainty, volatility and instability in 21st century organizations?
Read More »Solving the Innovation Learning Problem
Most of us know that organizational innovation involves making serious and significant change, yet what most of us are challenged by is how change impacts on, and disrupts four-core human structures: cognition, emotion, body and will.
Read More »How Big is Your Comfort Zone?
I’ve been thinking about comfort zones. Most of the discussion makes it seem like comfort zones are static. They’re not. We can decide if our comfort zones...
Read More »The Agility Shifter: Emerging role for innovation leadership
Coping with disruptive technological change A recent article The global forces inspiring a new narrative of progress in McKinsey Quarterly, it states that “Corporate leaders today need to rethink where and how they compete, and must cooperate in the crafting of a new societal deal that helps individuals cope with disruptive technological change”. The article outlines a broad narrative of ...
Read More »How to Educate for the Future – Not the Past
Clearly, we need to rethink education. Our kids will face a much different world than we live in now. In fact, a study at Oxford concluded that nearly half of the jobs that exist today will be automated in the next 20 years. To prepare for the future, we need to replace our regimented education system with one that fosters skills like teamwork, communication and exploration.
Read More »Harness Collective Genius: Develop learning agility!
When I was living in Israel, seeking a more meaningful life, I was unable to work in my culture consulting, top team and leadership development areas of expertise. As a result of this very serious and high impact problem I experienced a powerful and deep collision between the necessity to earn a living, and the possibilities emerging in such a ...
Read More »Unfreezing the Innovation Permafrost
Why might some organizations be “staying at rest” when there are so many possibilities and opportunities available to them, in the current business environment, to grow, nurture and sustain their competitiveness and relevance to their customers and key stakeholders?
Read More »Integrating Agility with Stability to Innovate
Our generative challenge focussed on how we could possibly and ultimately co-create, with our client, the parameters for operating in “their playing field of the future” what McKinsey describe as defining “a relatively unchanging set of core elements—a fixed backbone”.
Read More »The Lego Kit of Life (by Design)
What if I said that life was a set of Lego® bricks ~ all sorts of sizes, shapes, colors with a few bricks fixed together, unbreakable, but mot of them easily taken apart and rearranged? If you're like me, you love (yup, you still do, face it!) playing, building, creating with lego (that's why I hang out with engineers and makers).
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