In his latest book, Innovation for the Fatigued: How to Build a Culture of Deep Creativity, Alf Rehn highlighted a phrase I hadn’t seen before – ‘Innovation Theatre’. Coined by Steve Blank, innovation theatre describes the way organisations try to gain cachet in innovation circles by emulating startup techniques. Unfortunately these activities often end up… Read More Learning Theatre
One of the reasons I’ve been advocating for LnD to become engineers over shopkeepers is because the value of content is reducing. Oversupply of video, podcasts, slide decks and free to publish texts mean the price of content has tumbled. Why pay for bespoke when I can get something for nil or neutral cost? If… Read More Cost of everything, value of nothing
I saw that Towards Maturity were running a webinar on Friday. Jo Cook presented a screenshot of one of the slides (above). The ‘extreme’ concerns come from L&D people and it begs two questions: Why aren’t the concerns of the business the concerns of L&D? Why should the business take L&D seriously if L&D isn’t… Read More Read my lips
Julian Stodd wrote about this a couple of months ago and it’s stuck with me. As he says, it needs a different mindset but not just individually – that needs to be a collective mindset. Each of us will have different minimum tolerance about how collective we wish to be. That’s why Harold Jarche’s Seek Sense… Read More A Social Movement
I’m back. Refreshed, relaxed, fitter, healthier. The same but different. One small difference is my Twitter username; I’m now @AndrewJacobsLnD. The reason for the change is simple – people didn’t understand what the LD meant. Some thought it was Learning and Development, others Learning Disability while some thought it was Liberal Democrat. I’m political impartial… Read More Slightly edited
Lost and Desperate 