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How good is when you join a team that just seems to have it all going on…?! SO GOOD is the answer if you were unsure! Tell-tale signs of working in a high performing team include: people being open to giving and receiving feedback, sharing opinions freely and not being precious about being challenged. TheyRead more

Innovation is a word at the tip of almost every CEO’s lips. However, despite the best of intentions, many organisations are killing innovation. There are several issues that these organisations have in common.   Leaders don’t walk the talk While the majority of CEOs and their leadership teams talk about innovation, many unfortunately don’t doRead more

This week I experienced something really cool. My new Inventium home in Sydney, is right next to my old office at Deloitte (we’re neighbours now guys!). Taking advantage of my new found proximity to old colleagues, my first Friday night in a new city was spent ‘nerd-ing-out’ with Jo Rhoden on John Hagel’s new researchRead more

In many organisations the ‘F’ word, failure, is not tolerated. But failure is an inevitable part of innovation, as it comes naturally to anything with an element of uncertainty to it. The idea of risk-taking and creating a safe-to-fail workplace culture is not a new one, however, it’s not an easy nut to crack. OverRead more

Organisational innovation has typically been the domain of marketing and R&D departments. However, considerable research has been conducted that suggests it is actually the HR department that can have the greatest impact on organisational innovation. Despite ‘organisational innovation’ being a buzz word from the 1890s that seems to have had a large degree of stayingRead more

Creative managers know that if you approach a challenge knowing nothing, you’re likely to come up with a solution that is different and original. Most of us are brought up to believe that failure should be avoided and that it is the opposite of success. Certainly, that’s what the dictionary definition says. But in theRead more

So, in my spare time last year, I decided to write my second book. It’s called The Innovation Formula and the wonderful folk at Wiley are publishing it. It will be appearing in all good (and even the not so good) book stores on April 1. No, this is not an April Fool’s joke. TheRead more

In case you haven’t heard, Tony’s ‘out’ and innovation is ‘in’. It’s the buzz word and policy brainchild that Turnbull hopes will tangibly boost our economy. No doubt there will be mountains and mole hills to overcome along the way – two standouts being Climate (aka Culture) and Capability. There’s a third cornerstone, Process, whichRead more

During my time at Inventium, one thing I have heard pretty consistently, is that financial rewards can be an innovation culture killer. A lot of the psychology literature on innovation addresses the difference between intrinsic motivations and extrinsic rewards. While anecdotally, it seems to make sense that financial rewards are the best way to motivateRead more

Ok, so you have identified the need to innovate within your business or organisation, but where on earth do you start? Or perhaps you already have started, but you have hit a plateau and need to ramp things up again? Whatever the case, here are five simple ways you can inspire your team – andRead more