Shift to Networks from Hierarchies
Our experience teaches that traditional strategic planning is not the right approach to designing and guiding regional innovation ecosystems. It is…
The OS Canvas How to rebuild your organization from the ground up
Niels Pflaeging offers some clarity. “Culture is like a shadow. You cannot change it, but it changes all the time. Culture is read-only.” Trying to…
When Hierarchies and Networks Collide
What happens when a hierarchy meets its match in today’s networked world? Who wins, the hierarchy or the network?
How Music Affects Your Brain (Plus 11 Artists To Listen To At Work)
Music, your brain and emotions: the general stuff
How Freelancers Are Reinventing Work Through New Collective Enterprises
An emerging collectivist movement
How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door
We found many ways that all kinds of organisations positively encouraged intelligent people not to fully use their intelligence. There were rules and…
Icebreakers Are Terrible. They Also, Unfortunately, Work Really Well.
And the third and most important purpose is encouraging people to talk about themselves. “That’s the foundation of relationships: self-disclosure,”…
Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year
In total, then, there are 21.4 million employees in the U.S. workforce — 12.5 million managers and the equivalent of 8.9 million individual…
The Neuroscience of Everybody's Favorite Topic
Human beings are social animals. We spend large portions of our waking hours communicating with others, and the possibilities for conversation are…
5 Ideo Kickstarting Exercises
More and more designers are using improv games in order to get groups in the mood to collaborate. There are many of these games, taught at places…