I love a good story. What I mean is the messy, unpolished and authentic stories people tell about real life. The stories I don’t like are the ones manufactured as part of ‘corporate storytelling’. To engage staff, get a message across, change culture (ha ha ha ha!), ‘sell’ the need for change or indeed ‘sell’ […]
Crowdsourcing and brilliant ideas that were originally rejected. No such thing as a bad idea?
Have you ever been to an engagement /consultation/staff development day and been asked to write down your ideas on ‘post it notes’ and then stick them on flip charts? Someone then dutifully collects the forest of paper and promises to type them up and share the results. Months later you get sent a document full […]
“Ideas need to be brutally tested before you implement them”….. or try some Ritual Dissent?
“Ideas need to be brutally tested”….. So says the teenage idealist. This was part of a conversation with my son during a 5 hour road trip along the mystical A470. He is studying product design. I must admit, the ‘teenage idealist’ part of me very much liked that proposition. It sounds very dynamic and action orientated. […]
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