'If you allow any opportunity for it, bureaucracy will find a way back in. Nearly four years after the pandemic, the status quo has been largely restored.'

Paul Taylor

paulitaylor.com/2024/01/28/the…

Over time, organisations develop a set of social norms – ‘the way we do things around here’ – that either promote innovation or quell it.

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🎙️ Episode 8 of Let's Talk Ideas is here! 🎙️

'How To Spread Ideas' with Will Lilley of Health Innovation South West

We talk about the challenges of spreading innovation in small organisations, large ones and the #NHS

Spotify: lnkd.in/ebPXZ9Zs
Apple: lnkd.in/ewS5FHVn

Fetishising speed results in just hurrying up‘. Fast gets all the attention, slow has all the power’.

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Why have producers started producing more of the same thing, and why are consumers consuming it?

This is excellent on why pop culture feels increasingly bland by Adam Mastroianni HT Stowe Boyd | workfutures.io
experimental-history.com/p/pop-culture-…

Adaptive spaces are a way of introducing more transformational thinking into organisations.

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Harsh! But fair? Paul Taylor on LinkedIn & Twitter. 'LinkedIn is alright. It’s a bit like Dubai, very efficient at getting you connections and taking you where you want to get to, but there’s something a bit fake about it all. A place to visit only if you really have to'

'Does it really matter if LinkedIn and other social networks are filled with corporate guff and motivational platitudes? Actually, it does. We can’t solve problems if we don’t recognise they exist.'

LinkedIn has seemingly metamorphosed into a service that provides a sort of Instagram filter for your career – where everyone presents an idealised version of the world of work.

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What a week #AVFC

Hilariously brilliant. £25 million earmarked to improve a contact centre receiving 50 million calls. 45 million calls were failure demand. 5 million calls were value demand. 'Would you spend £25 million on 5 million calls. I don't bloody think so'. linkedin.com/posts/jonasast…

Positive deviant organisations don't benchmark or follow others - rather they honorably violate industry norms or best practices.

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'Surely no-one objects to the idea that we shouldn't be building new housing where people have to drive to buy a pint of milk, go to school or visit the doctor because there’s no shops, schools or surgeries close by?' lttr.ai/ARjuw

Best two birthday presents I've had this weekend #AVFC

Just because everyone is agreeing with you doesn't mean they really agree with you. Remeber that when everyone says they love your latest idea.

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This little VGA to HDMI adapter represents so much of what disappoints me working in the NHS.

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How much better off would we ALL be, if all the resources poured pointlessly into chasing talent were instead poured into understanding systems, and systems thinking?

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Disrupt yourself or face a slow but steady decline into obsolescence.

Read the full article: Disruption-Proof: How Entire Sectors Avoid Transformation
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In this episode of Let's Talk Ideas we are joined by whatsthepont discussing idea antibodies that can kill innovation, the problem with following 'best practice' & why we spend so much time ‘bike-shedding’. Tune in on Spotify, Apple or your fave app pod.link/1719984214

Ending this trip where it started

#Travel