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Jeff Bezos’ Rule: What will not change?

Idea to Value

Many innovators and strategists are obsessed with predicting how the world will change in the future. But often, it can be even more valuable to figure out what will not change in the future. I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’

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Episode 080: Creative Ideas From 2012: How Did They Turn Out?

Innovation in Practice

Back in 2012, The New York Times released an article entitled “32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow.” It was basically a list of 32 different innovations which they predict will change the future. In today’s episode, let’s turn the clock back and see how well they did as we look ahead from 2012 to today.

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Top Posts of 2022

Digital Tonto

At the beginning of this year, I wrote that the theme for 2022 would be Surviving Change and I think that’s been borne out. Top Posts of 2012. We’ve had so many shocks to the system that all of the happy talk about disruption has become not only juvenile and naive, but downright irresponsible. Top Posts for 2014.

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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

The incredible cynicism and incompetence of Yanukovych’s rule stoked a desire to change direction. We have wars raging, authoritarian regimes on the rise, deep challenges posed by climate change, and the need to regulate our technology, especially, but not only, artificial intelligence. Yet that wasn’t the end of the story. We can too.

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5 Behaviours to Lead Successful Change

Innovation Excellence

Just how do leaders energise their people to embrace change? The need for change is constant in a constantly changing business environment. Unfortunately, the failure rate of change projects has little changed in recent years, despite the increasing use of agile methods.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

This is the list of sections and book summaries: Alltime Classics How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie – 1936 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill – 1937 The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale – 1952 The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson – 1981 In Search of Excellence (..)

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Functional fixedness bias, and how to overcome it

Idea to Value

As described by Anthony McCaffrey in 2012 , the GPT asks a series of two questions to participants when they are being challenges with describing an object: “Can this be decomposed further?”. There are other variants of fixedness which also limit innovation thinking, such as structural or relational fixedness.

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