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More diverse teams have been shown to come up with better ideas than more homogeneous teams. They are also more likely to succeed at continuing to be creative in the long run. So then why is it that so many companies are full of similar-looking people? Especially when it comes to the more senior levels? [...]
We know that a lot of people have a bias towards to keeping the status quo. Or if they do see a new innovation which is fundamentally different that what they know, they might see how other people react to using it first before they feel comfortable using it themselves. Yet at the same time, [...]
In London's Royal Botanical Kew Gardens, there is a tree which has inspired the world. It is an ancient, huge oak tree. Planted in 1798 and standing more than 16 meters tall, it has long been one of the most important and well known trees in the gardens. Called "Turner's oak" after its species name, [...]
Humans are a forgetful species. While we have an amazing ability to remember complex information and patterns, our brains can be given so much information that if we remembered everything, it would be a jumbled mess and impossible to remember any specific fact. Imagine that remembering something is like finding a pair of socks to [...]
If there is one chemical in our body which can impact our well-being and creative performance, it might just be cortisol. Cortisol is a natural hormone produced in our bodies with a number of functions, but one of the primary functions is to feelings of stress. This evolved hundreds of millions of years ago in [...]
I want to tell you a story about the most clear example of failure I know of. In 2019, while I was living and working in Australia, a news story went around which was so crazy it was hard to believe. A drug dealer had been caught by the police, and had therefore lost the [...]
In my experience, I do not put much trust into the responses of surveys or polls. Especially when it comes to asking people what they think or feel about a topic, which so often happens in new product development and innovation. And there is a simple reason for this: What people say they would do, [...]
If you have ever asked yourself whether a computer can be creative, we have just gotten closer to the answer. While software has long been able to generate artistic work like text, scripts and images, a new piece of software called OpenAI GLIDE AI has recently been released which blows these out of the water. [...]
Today is the 22 of Feb, 2022. Written numerically, that could be written as: 22.02.2022 22.2.22 Both of which are a palindrome (same forwards as backwards), or since it is a date, perhaps better called a calendrome. Additionally, in Europe we write our times in a 24 hour format. So 10:22pm with 22 seconds in [...]
Airline loyalty programmes are fascinating. Not just because we happen to have enough frequent flyer points with one airline to fly around the world, but instead because of how they completely changed the business model of airlines. If you have any interest in understanding business model innovation, I highly recommend you watch this video (above [...]
