Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 26, 2024

Many of us who work in the consulting and strategy space often talk about the difficulties in understanding and more importantly, changing a corporate culture. That is, we want the culture to adapt to market needs and changes that everyone can see but inertia keeps the company from making.

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Digital Tonto

MARCH 17, 2024

A simple truth about status games is that we all play them, whether we are aware of it or not. As leaders, we also need to understand that the drive for status is also an underlying element of culture. So we need to ask ourselves, how are we conferring status on others? They are, in large part, a cop-out.

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Conference Culture Study Management 142

Digital Tonto

MARCH 10, 2024

We live life in the moment and moments are dictated by events. We want to show that we are not only a full-fledged member of our tribe, but a star player on the team. We want to show that we are not only a full-fledged member of our tribe, but a star player on the team.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 8, 2022

The corollary principle is; in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry it out. ’ The companies were more likely to promote people who were good at sales into managerial positions. We then show that firms can improve managerial quality by promoting fewer top sales performers on the margin.’

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Digital Tonto

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Today, we stand on the precipice of a new paradigm. To successfully navigate the decade ahead, we must make decisions not just about what we want, but who we want to be. Everyone needs to decide who they are and where they stand. Europeans need to take sides. Europeans need to take sides. So do the Chinese.

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Our identity and sense of self drives a lot of what we see and do, yet we rarely examine these things because we spend most of our time with people who are a lot like us, who live in similar places and experience similar things. Yet integrating identities takes effort. This is no easy task.

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Digital Tonto

MARCH 3, 2024

Once we accept and learn to anticipate the inevitable counterrevolution, we may then alter the historical pattern of revolution and counterrevolution from the traditional slow advance of two steps forward and one step backward to minimizing the latter,” he wrote. The ultimate adversary of genuine, lasting change is excess.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 4, 2021

In this 1973 film directed by Fred Zinnemann, Edward Fox plays a professional assassin, the “Jackal”, who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. We seem to find them fascinating. Breaking Bad is about a chemistry teacher who becomes a master drugs dealer. Why do we find them so enthralling?

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 7, 2024

That’s why we need to think about change as a strategic conflict between the present state and an alternative vision. To bring about transformation we need to undermine the sources of power that underlie the present state while strengthening the forces that favor a different future. Your targets determine your tactics.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 2, 2023

Thanks to evolution, we have numerous biases and heuristics programmed into our brains to try and keep us safe. Even when we as individuals want to push our company and our colleagues to try new things, or do things differently, their desire for the status quo often means that we are pushing uphill.

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 23, 2023

Those who have been right in the past, who have proved the doubters wrong, are going to be less likely to see the warning signs. There’s a sucker born every minute and they’re usually the ones who think that they’re playing it smart. We all have blind spots and we all fall prey to the operational glitches of our brains.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

Bill Gallagher, AKA the Scaling Coach , is a keynote speaker and entrepreneur who helps fellow founders and CEOs grow their businesses sustainably, often through fostering more productive and more positive environments. The way we perceive our environment is both affected by and affects our attitude, actions, and results.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2024

As we grow or change, our identity transitions are often invisible — unless we do the work to help others see our changes. This can be particularly true for people who have worked at a company for a long time.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 21, 2022

There's a famous quote about tools we use, which says that we first shape our tools, and then they shape us. Meaning, I think, that we are natural creators, meant to solve problems, to create new things. Once attainable and proven useful, those tools change the way we live and work.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 3, 2021

We talked to EO CEO Carrie Santos and EO chair Dave Anderson — an entrepreneur who founded the public relations company Off Madison Ave — about how small business owners can succeed amidst the challenges presented by the pandemic. So anything we [EO] do as an organization, we use that energy.

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Idea to Value

JULY 10, 2023

Who is right or wrong? According to research, naïve realism shows that people believe that they see the world around us objectively, and that people who disagree with them must be uninformed, irrational, or biased. This is known as the bias blind spot , meaning we are all more biased than we believe.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

We advocate for ethical labor practices, business practices, and standards within the industry.”. What makes us unique to a lot of the other associations within the creative industry is that we lobby on specific legislation,” DiFiore said. A key issue. It’s not paid, and it often takes up to a week to do the free labor.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 18, 2024

Premise: We now live in a world where we are going through a change of one kind or another. Even when we are not leading a change initiative, we are, at all times collaborating with others, who are not part of our team, people who have a different goal than our own, people whose contribution might be critical for our success.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

When I was about 7 years old, we had a game called “Major Motion” that I would play every day after school. So it wasn’t until I got older and into high school that I realized there weren’t a lot of girl gamers, and that there was an ideology that we weren’t supposed to like gaming. The gatekeeping is a little silly.

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Change Industry Tools Learning 246

Digital Tonto

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Yet in today's marketplace, that’s no longer tenable because the work we need done is increasingly non-routine. That means we need people to do more than merely carry out tasks, they need to put all of their passion and creativity into their work to perform at a high-level. There Will Always Be People Who Want To Kill Change.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 24, 2023

Or that people who work in accounting are not creative? Steele later used the phrase “churn” to describe the anxiety we all feel when thinking about how our identity will play out in a diverse setting. So nobody is immune to the stereotype threat, not even people who are in a group which is usually stereotypically strong.

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Comparison Groups Creativity Study 248

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In a time when everyone is focused on analytics, on artificial intelligence, on strategy and on mission, focusing on change and culture is almost counterintuitive, but it's probably what we should be focusing on. Today, I want to focus on change: why we change, how we change, and what the future holds for change.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 25, 2022

1500 people who you can recognise. Of course, as we age and move, the actual individuals filling these positions is likely to change. After all, how many of us are still best friends with the same people we had in kindergarten? How many people can you meet in your lifetime, and could you potentially keep in touch with?

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Idea to Value

APRIL 21, 2023

After all, dreams happen when we sleep. And dreams sometimes exhibit some of the most creative, unexpected and original thoughts we ever have. This implies that the brain really is able to work on challenges while we are asleep. This is also usually when we dream.

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Creativity Study Engagement Examples 283

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 6, 2024

If change is so prevalent and competitors are constantly entering and leaving markets, we don't need to worry about change management, we need to be change agents and create change capacity in the business. If you are still with me so far, then the question might be - how do we create change capacity in our companies?

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Culture Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence Agile 157

Digital Tonto

OCTOBER 22, 2023

We like to see ourselves as heroes fighting for everything that’s right and we question the motivations of those who oppose our cause. When we believe in something passionately, it’s hard to see how anyone, in good conscience, can see it another way. The stories we tell are important.

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Digital Tonto

JANUARY 14, 2024

We pick a side, form a group identity and set out to prove our worth by supporting the party line. In our quest for status, we try to top those around us, leading to a purity spiral in which everyone competes to see who can be the most true to the cause. We can test them. Yet truth is more than opinion.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 2, 2022

I've been thinking for years that we have innovation all wrong. We treat innovation as it if requires years of experience, deep knowledge of an industry or a technology, or mastery of a specific subject. People who have deep experience must know where opportunities lie, right? This seems like a logical approach. But not always.

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Idea to Value

MAY 5, 2022

In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast , we speak with bestselling author Eric Barker. We speak about his new book Plays well with others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong , and the scientific insights we can all use to have stronger and healthier relationships.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Innovation is practiced by humans, who are fallible creatures. As innovators we are going to get things wrong, therefore our confidence will be temporary and intermittent - like spotty cell reception in the 1990’s. The truth is, in the practice of innovation, uncertainty is everywhere.

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Innovation 130

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 12, 2024

So, with all that said, here's the key question: who is minding your ability to change, and influencing what the culture cares about? Who focuses on change capacity? Who minds the store? So, who in your organization minds the culture and who minds change capacity? Creating a reason to change isn't too hard.

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Culture Change Competition Leadership 157

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sadly many innovators are simply happily working away with no specific guidelines, apart from the general remit of “we need to be more innovative”, and this lack of coherence merging from the boardroom, failing to cascade down the organisation leaves this strategic part that innovation should plan as far to vague.

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Guidelines Innovation Strategy Strategy 342

IdeaScale

AUGUST 24, 2021

IdeaScale was introduced to Ibbaka because they are working with us on a very special project to help us innovate on our business model, but we were impressed at their experience, conversancy in design thinking and innovation and passion for subjects like growth models. We do that in several ways: .

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In other words, we should think before we add things that complicate matters. In modern life we are constantly adding things. William of Ockham was a monk, who led a simple existence. We need to do the hard work of subtraction, taking out things that might have once made sense but don’t anymore.

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