The CEO as cornerstone for Creativity “What distinguishes a leader from a follower is innovation.” Steve Jobs In recent months, many companies managed to quickly adapt to the particular conditions imposed by the market by offering new products or services. Some companies have even managed to reinvent themselves, such as Michelin-starred restaurants who…
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Maintain and reinforce the silver lining of this crisis… This is a question I got recently from the head of a business unit in a large company: “To keep the agility our organization was able to demonstrate during the crisis, we started to implement an agile way of working in the whole organization. We…
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In our previous article, ‘the future is the crab, the chicken and the dog on a slide or how to keep innovation alive’ we discussed the case of an innovative product team. They spent precious time and energy fighting internal procedures that limited them in their endeavor to develop innovative solutions for the customers. Their…
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This is the new motto the management team of a very innovative company developed during a series of working sessions we facilitated. It was totally unexpected as the initial problem with which they approached us was linked to people leaving the company. What they learned is the importance of the question behind the question, the problem behind…
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In what way have you been confronted with agile? In some way or another we all have. You know that you have to adapt, to find ways to act quickly and in a more forward-looking way. Agile is a proven way of working to develop more action oriented organizations that remain productive and relevant…
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When introducing the word creativity, a lot of people react by saying ‘I am not creative’. This is based on a series of myths around creativity that have been developed over time. Luckily a lot of research has been done to show that everybody is intuitively creative and can easily learn to deliberately apply it.…
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During the Corona-crisis the energy in organizations has clearly shifted towards more agility and creativity. If this trend was present before the crisis, it has clearly been accelerated and more widely spread by the demands of the crisis. Moreover, it seems this shift is here to stay. Leaders desire an even greater focus on agility…
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In times of ongoing uncertainty like today, people tend to look for certainty by reverting to fixed patterns of thinking, while all organizations, private as well as public, not for profit and for profit, need to rely on creativity and innovation. Now more than ever. Faced with the challenge to manage this polarity, leaders need…
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Imagine the corona crisis as a forced experiment in which we all have to adapt abruptly to radical change in the world. The disruptive change that has been announced for a long time became reality at once. What do we see? People and organizations adapt very quickly. Where digital tools and ways of working…
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