Blog - Category: Innovation

Workshops with Prof Dave Snowden in Jhb & Cape Town (October 2013)

Complexity and adaptive leadership, Innovation, Leadership, Narrative

As promised in an earlier post, here are the details for the various public workshops taking place with Dave Snowden in October. In Gauteng: 1. A full day workshop at Worldsview Academy in Johannesburg on 17 October with a focus on complexity & leadership Find out more about it here 2. A half day workshop at […]

One sure-fire way to poison your culture

Complexity and adaptive leadership, Healthy organizations, Innovation, Meaning and purpose

Sometimes I come across ideas in business that is just so counter-productive that I really cannot understand how they ever became accepted practice. One such idea that I've seen wreak havoc on corporate culture is the so-called Forced Ranking performance assessment process (or as Jack Welch termed it "Rank & Yank"). In virtually every company […]

7 Lessons on innovation from the "lost" Steve Jobs interview

Complexity and adaptive leadership, Innovation

I may a bit behind the rest of the world, but I only recently came across this video of an interview done with Steve Jobs by Bob Cringely as part of the 1996 PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires. The footage was presumed lost for several years, but recently a […]

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