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Over the decades, many business leaders have shifted their mindset, from building companies that are ‘built to last,” as Porras and Collins observed; to obsessing over this quarter, sometimes even this month. The collateral damage? Deep and widespread. Culture suffers when companies cycle through mass hiring and mass firing. CEO tenures focused on short-term metrics…
One of the fundamental ingredients of an impactful innovation or successful design thinking exercise, is empathy. The ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Often, in our enthusiasm to create something someone (a customer segment, employees, or even society), or to solve a problem for them, we tend to knowingly or unknowingly speed…
This post explores an alternative to fix the replication crisis (particularly in the behavioural science and economics fields, and if relevant, in other fields too). This post is in continuation to an earlier post titled Sample Size of One: The Rose Negotiations. It would help to read that one first before coming to this one….
When companies create products, focus often tends to be on maximizing perceived value and profitability (within the respective value category). It’s like they are looking outward, being reactive (to competitors), and playing their part in a herd. Yet every once in a rare while, comes a product that has been built so thoughtfully, you begin…
Here’s something that might sound strange coming from someone who’s spent years in innovation and design: I’m not always empathetic. And neither are you. There’s this perception in the design world that innovators, designers, and design thinkers are empaths, and that trait is always switched on. People get surprised, sometimes even offended, when you don’t…
Here’s a nice post by Nikki Anderson for anyone who’s debated whether innovators and designers should ask users for innovative solutions to their challenges, or if crafting the solution is solely the innovator or designer’s job. My short answer: A bit of both. In my experience, and as I have mentioned in my book ‘Design…
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