September 2017
Don’t Look for a Great Idea. Look for a Good Problem
To create anything that is truly pathbreaking, you need to look for it in new places.
Employees do not need your intentions and promises. Try recognition and appreciation instead.
He was fiercely loyal to his employees, often putting his own neck on the line. What he got back was our utmost dedication. He never asked..
How do you innovate at scale within the federal government?
How do you get past “that’s the way we’ve always done it” to find new and innovative ways to do things? Bryan Sivak brought scientific met..
The Key to Bridgewater’s Success: A Real Idea Meritocracy
Our success occurred because we created a real idea meritocracy in which the goal was to have meaningful work and meaningful relationships..
Embrace automation and release your employees’ creativity
A study by Oxford University researchers estimates that 47 per cent of U.S. jobs could be automated within the next two decades.
Turning Curiosity into Sustained Creativity: Seven Steps to Creation
How do we use curiosity as a burning platform for sustained creativity in our personal and organizational lives?
Learning innovation in the digital age
As the workplace changes, so must education and training. Exciting experiments are under way—but are they enough?
Innovation capacity, organisational culture and gender
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of gender diversity on organisational capacity for innovation, and explore the factors ..
Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity
Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research a..
A model for high-performing teams
Much has been written about High-Performing Teams in recent years and for good reason. Organisational restructuring as part of the global ..