Change is learning something new

Simon Baker3 October 2015change, learningComment

Do schools kill creativity?

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures, rather than undermines creativity.

Simon Baker21 September 2015creativity, learningComment

Design appropriateness

Listen to what a thing wants to be.

Simon Baker9 September 2015design, quoteComment

Timelessness

If you do it right, it will last forever.

Simon Baker9 September 2015design, quoteComment

Do you dare to disagree?

Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us, good disagreement is central to progress.

Simon Baker27 August 2015conflict, communicationComment

Today's challenge of innovation

Simon Baker23 August 2015innovationComment

Product chemistry

Balancing the allure of beauty, the value of utility, and the temptation of novelty in product development.

Simon Baker25 July 2015design, innovation, product development, uxComment

Having purpose and a perspective

In a mobile society cynical about corporate life and an expanding entrepreneurial segment of the economy, companies with a clear purpose offer meaningful work to people with their own sense of purpose who aren't afraid to have a perspective and socialise it.

Simon Baker18 July 2015purpose, visionComment

Delighting your customers

There’s a tension between generating profits, pursuing purpose and delighting customers. Regardless you should never be content with only satisfied customers.

Happy at work

Our happiness at work is greatest when what we think, say and do are in harmony. This gives meaning and purpose, embodies our strengths and virtues and surpasses the pleasure and gratification of simply getting things done.

Simon Baker8 July 2015happiness, purpose, well-beingComment

The cost of getting it right

Cheap and rapid experimentation lets you try new and different things, and helps you deliver the right thing.

Simon Baker4 July 2015iterative, innovation, agile, experiment, empirical, feedback, leanComment

Management Innovation

You win big, not by betting big, but by betting often — and by staying at the table long enough to collect the winnings.

Simon Baker3 July 2015management, innovation, business, leadership, strategyComment

Happy effective collaboration requires responsibility, commitment and accountability

Collaborating effectively in an agile team requires us to embrace and uphold the very essence of responsibility, commitment, and accountability to build trust, learn and grow.

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