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
Are we really as innovative as we like to think we are? As a result, what has emerged in every domain are “intellectual cliques,” composed of curriculum developers, teachers, and the best students in that subject area. Their brains are all wired consistently with each other. Just as members of a social clique often are… Read More Innovation sucks
I saw this tweet yesterday: https://twitter.com/s_mmmdv/status/1096668794276196352 If managing that environment is your organisation, there’s a business performance issue happening right there. If your business came to you and asked you to train compliance into people, what would you do? This is the fundamental shift from shopkeeper to engineer; as long as you’re delivering learning material… Read More Crash test learning
Someone recently asked me what my learning philosophy was. The question took me aback for a moment because I’ve not considered a philosophy behind what I do. Can I describe it? I have lots of stock phrases which people connect with – nil/neutral cost, shopkeeper to engineer, etc – but they’re not really descriptions of… Read More Learning philosophy
…has a mind if its own. If you can’t do it then, what’s the point of an opinion?
Lost and Desperate 