C. William Pollard wrote an article titled Crafting a Culture of Character for Leader to Leader (Winter 2010, pp.38-42).
Continue reading “A Culture of Character”Complexity and Experimentation: The Rebellious Bee
Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled Complexity and Experimentation: The Rebellious Bee (12 June 2025).
« Rory Sutherland tells a story about bees… Without rebellious bees the hive would be less resilient and less likely to survive… All complex adaptive systems are also only healthy when exploitation of what is known (e.g. pollen sources) is balanced with time exploring things critical to future health. It is for this reason that JP Castlin talks, then, about the need for continual “safe-to-fail” experimentation in business as all companies are complex adaptive systems. All companies, then, require continual exploration if they are to be healthy. Of course, he calls these “safe-to-fail” experiments because they must be affordable enough — or constructed in safe enough ways — that they don’t sap the company’s ability to survive. »
Continue reading “Complexity and Experimentation: The Rebellious Bee”Complexity Debt
John Pavlus wrote an article for Kellogg Insight titled The Hidden Cost of Successful Experiments about the research of Yudi Huang, Sebastien Martin, and Zhiwei (Tony) Qin.
Continue reading “Complexity Debt”AI has an Uber problem… Capital is not a strategy
Tim O’Reilly wrote an article for The Information titled AI Has an Uber Problem: a handful of deep-pocketed investors distorts the market, fueling a race for monopoly that inhibits product-market fit. (pay wall)
Continue reading “AI has an Uber problem… Capital is not a strategy”CFOs play an outsized role in crushing innovation.
Roger L. Martin wrote a Medium post titled How to Become a Strategic Chief Financial Officer (1 April 2024).
Continue reading “CFOs play an outsized role in crushing innovation. “green methanol
Danielle Bochove wrote an article for Bloomberg titled A Green Methanol Pioneer Finally Has a Market (January 24, 2023).
Continue reading “green methanol”The way in which problems are communicated to us impacts our ability to solve them (visual vs verbal)
Nikola Spadina wrote an article titled Primed to fail: How cognitive biases undermine your creativity (April 20, 2021).
Continue reading “The way in which problems are communicated to us impacts our ability to solve them (visual vs verbal)”Eaon Pritchard on Originality and the Bullshit Industrial Complex
Eaon Pritchard wrote an article for AdNews titled All the Gear and No Idea. (11 July 2022).
Continue reading “Eaon Pritchard on Originality and the Bullshit Industrial Complex”Netflix: cash incineration strategy
Evan Johnson wrote a blog post titled The End of Streaming’s Golden Age (July 1, 2022).
Continue reading “Netflix: cash incineration strategy”Conjoint Analysis Can Undercut Price for Innovations
Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled Pricing and Complexity (Part 2): Conjoint Analysis Can Undercut Price for Innovations (Feb 9 2020).
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