ImagineNation

JULY 5, 2020

Connecting with a diverse range of my coaching and consulting clients over the past few weeks, has seriously deepened my understanding of the impact of disruption and adversity, on our stress levels and neurology, and the importance of leading and managing these factors, from both the business and the human perspective. Mindset matters most.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 5, 2021

In last month’s blog at ImagineNation we opened the door to a threshold for a new kind of co-creative, collaborative and cohesive team spirit to catalyse change through “innovation evangelism”. Usually in new ways that breakthrough corporate antibodies and barriers and deliver sustainable, meaningful, and purposeful change.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 23, 2020

Connecting with a diverse range of my coaching and consulting clients over the past few weeks, has seriously deepened my understanding of the impact of disruption and adversity, on our stress levels and neurology, and the importance of leading and managing these factors, from both the business and the human perspective. Mindset matters most.

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ImagineNation

JULY 5, 2020

Connecting with a diverse range of my coaching and consulting clients over the past few weeks, has seriously deepened my understanding of the impact of disruption and adversity, on our stress levels and neurology, and the importance of leading and managing these factors, from both the business and the human perspective. Mindset matters most.

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ImagineNation

MAY 2, 2021

In a recent article “Organizing for the future: Nine keys to becoming a future-ready company” McKinsey and Co, suggested that the Covid-19 pandemic has added to the pressure to change that has been growing for many years, which is now at a tipping point. What is a future-ready organisation?

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ImagineNation

MAY 3, 2022

Where leaders are mindful, authentic, and trustworthy, and are able to communicate with clarity, build resilience, and empower and enable others to collaboratively catalyse positive change. It sounds quite simple, yet, even now, it’s still a countercultural notion, as well as a neurologically challenging one. The Maturity Continuum.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 31, 2022

It’s been almost two and a half years since the Covid-19 pandemic shifted most of us to working virtually and remotely which seriously disrupted most of our business-as-usual behaviours and learning habits. How might we think differently shift our perception and see our worlds with “fresh eyes”?

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

In last month’s blog, Cultivating a Fail Fast Culture – as a manifestation of learning & exploration we explored what it means to take a reflective stance, to use the experience of failure to support ourselves and others we interact with, as a pivot point and a manifestation for learning and exploration. Playfulness at work.

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ImagineNation

JUNE 9, 2020

It was where I learned, the hardest way possible, the most important lesson of body surfing; that if you seek to ride a wave, you have to wait for it, to discover the best opportunity to arise, so you can work or flow with it to let it carry you to the shore. The waves of disruptive change are the masters.

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The Human Factor

MARCH 1, 2019

As anyone who reads my blog knows, I’m a big proponent of playing with it. Brainteasers challenge us to think and look at things differently. With the rate of change in today’s world, learning how to counteract these brain foibles has become a very important leadership skill. The human brain is a remarkable organ.

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Values Centered Innovation

MAY 14, 2020

People from around the world have shared their insights and perspectives about how Jolt #1 has been “learning them.” But first, we invite you to jump in and see how this Jolt might just rearrange some of your own molecules! Be prepared… Some of their experiences may stimulate your own awareness, capabilities, and action!

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Values Centered Innovation

MAY 22, 2020

Are you ready for a new, insight-provoking “Jolt” … something designed to “rearrange your molecules” as it elicitsyour unique, innovative potential in life and work? People from around the world have shared their insights and perspectives about how this Jolt has been “learning them.” Jolts wake us up. An AHA of “no limits”.

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The Human Factor

OCTOBER 19, 2015

A while back, I wrote a blog about how to suck at leadership. A tongue-in-cheek look at how not to be an effective leader, it turned out to be one of my more popular blogs. If playing not to lose represents your preferred strategy, here’s how to ensure you don’t end up on the podium with the gold medal around your neck.

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The Human Factor

OCTOBER 19, 2015

A while back, I wrote a blog about how to suck at leadership. A tongue-in-cheek look at how not to be an effective leader, it turned out to be one of my more popular blogs. If playing not to lose represents your preferred strategy, here’s how to ensure you don’t end up on the podium with the gold medal around your neck.

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ImagineNation

MAY 9, 2019

Is it a leader who seemingly operates from an “I” or a singular perspective, or is it a leadership style, that operates from “we” or from a team perspective? Is it a leader who seemingly operates from an “I” or a singular perspective, or is it a leadership style, that operates from “we” or from a team perspective?

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ImagineNation

MARCH 22, 2020

It’s almost five years since my husband, two dogs, and our pussycat relocated back to Melbourne, Australia, after spending six years living and working in the Middle East, where adapting to uncertainty was a way of life. Where we initially landed in a fog of disruptive change that settled into every fibre of our being.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 22, 2020

It’s almost five years since my husband, two dogs, and our pussycat relocated back to Melbourne, Australia, after spending six years living and working in the Middle East, where adapting to uncertainty was a way of life. Where we initially landed in a fog of disruptive change that settled into every fibre of our being.

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The Human Factor

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In my blogs, keynotes, and work with clients, I constantly emphasize the importance of having the skills to manage in a world of constant change and uncertainty. How do we create a safe working environment when contact with another employee could lead to serious illness or death? New ways of working.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Brainzooming blog wasn’t originally focused on project management techniques. Implementing innovation in organizations reluctant to embrace the changes needed to survive and grow requires what we’ve come to call “strategic project management.” One won’t work without the other. Change Management.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The group did include several different sales groups. The sales groups all tended to sit together so audience members that worked together, stayed together. Let me ask a few questions: Does your organization have all the diversity it needs to uncover creativity and innovative strategies? Diversity is a terrible thing to waste.

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ImagineNation

JULY 7, 2019

Involving going out of my way to meet people with different business and life experiences, backgrounds and perspectives. Involving going out of my way to meet people with different business and life experiences, backgrounds and perspectives. Power of learning through networking. Why is this important?

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 24, 2017

If you know me at all, you would already know that I read a lot of stuff – right from business topics like (Sales, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing) to personal topics like philosophy, religion, psychology, habit formation, economics and the lot. Dealing with Your Irrational Competitor. I did write about it earlier myself.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Taivara Blog Post by Kevin Dwinnell. First, don’t ignore the ideas that are already alive within your organization. A specific challenge to your organization for ideas to solve a particular problem can often lead to real insights. Put your existing power into play. Ideation: Anatomy of a New Product Idea.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Just think about how much easier it will be if innovation lead change strategies are designed, articulated, received & executed by people in the VUCA times of our Digital Age. An innovation lead change strategy in organizations often begins with a clear reason why innovation is important. Disrupting business as usual.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Working this way teaches people the value of developing customer intimacy and an empathic understanding as to what constitutes value in their eyes. Learning from this agile way of working, it is one way of taking the “emotional heat” out of “failure” as an emotional reaction, a visceral experience and perpetration against someone.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

Reinforcing and validating the importance and role of collaboration, where a range of new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed innovative workplace culture changes, have emerged. Capacity to change. Integrating diverse perspectives to shape solutions. Making strategic decisions.

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Rmukesh Gupta

AUGUST 5, 2017

I have been writing every for this blog for the past 20 days and every time I open up my laptop to write, I don’t necessarily have an idea that I want to write about. I need some kind of an inspiration, some seed of a thought which can then go on to become a blog post. This is what writers call inspiration.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

To do this effectively, they say that traditional leaders typically play four different roles – the planner (developing strategy and translating it into a plan); the director (assigning responsibility); and the controller (making sure everyone does what they should minimize variance against the plan). Maximizing the dormant space.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But Steven argues that history suggests a completely different story. He also says, “An idea is a network and a new idea is a new set of neurons firing in sync with each other inside your brain.” He also says, “An idea is a network and a new idea is a new set of neurons firing in sync with each other inside your brain.”

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 17, 2015

Our whole understanding of innovation is changing; there are numerous shifts occurring. It is a far more working as a constellation, drawing from an evolving network effect seeking out combined solutions from this design. We need to find a new way of doing things differently around innovation and its management.

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