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International women’s day: what’s the point?
On this international Women’s Day, the debates, the initiatives and questions
are rekindled about the place of women in the world and in organisations. I’m
surprised, angry and sad that organisations are still trying to answer the wrong
question: how do we get more women in top positions?
How bad is the good idea of juniors mentoring seniors
For some years now, the practice of “reverse mentoring” – digital natives/juniors mentoring seniors – has been deployed in some large corporations with the aim of getting senior employees and managers up to speed with the digital age. The term "reverse mentoring" has been created to distinguish itself from
The only four problems that innovators can solve
Running a regular business is not simple, but it’s well-documented and can be taught in various ways. It’s comparable to classical mechanics. On the other hand, innovation is the quantum physics of classical business. When its counter-intuitiveness has been laid out for you, you immediately feel like you
Give me the black sheep
> GIVE ME THE BLACK SHEEP. I WANT ARTISTS WHO ARE FRUSTRATED. I WANT THE ONES WHO
HAVE ANOTHER WAY OF DOING THINGS THAT NOBODY’S LISTENING TO. GIVE US ALL THE
GUYS WHO ARE PROBABLY ALREADY HEADING OUT THE DOOR.Brad BIRD
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Bird]
Innovation’s edge effects
A keynote for part of the French ENGIE managing team on innovation’s edge
effects, and why these effects have now become the underlying drivers of market
change.
Car manufacturers are the new Nokia
For anyone seriously involved in innovation, it’s stunning to realize that the
industry learned nothing from early 2000s Nokia. People still think of the car
industry as a hardware business. It’s all about the car, the engine, the brakes,
the dashboard, the performance, the security, and the comfort.