A Conversation is the Smallest Unit of Change
The Discipline of Innovation Blog | Tim Kastelle
by Tim Kastelle
3y ago
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” -Walt Whitman, Song of Myself “After I used the term sympoiesis in a grasp for something other than the lures of autopoiesis, Katie King told me about M. Beth Dempster’s Master of Environmental Studies thesis written in 1998, in which she suggested the term sympoieisis for “collectively-produced systems that do not have self-defined spatial or temporal boundaries. Information and control are distributed among components. The systems are evolutionary and have the potential for surprising change ..read more
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The Power of Purposeful Innovation
The Discipline of Innovation Blog | Tim Kastelle
by Tim Kastelle
3y ago
The Herman Miller company became one of the world’s first manufacturers of sustainably-produced furniture almost by accident. Back in the 1950s, as the company became one of the biggest furniture manufacturers in the US selling now iconic designs from Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, and Alexander Girard. At the time, DJ de Pree, the founder of the company, made a couple of key decisions that still influence the way the firm operates today. The first is that he believed that the company should make the most of the unique talents held by each of their employees. This is embodied today in ..read more
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Taking a Long Term View During Turbulent Times
The Discipline of Innovation Blog | Tim Kastelle
by Tim Kastelle
3y ago
What’s the best way to respond to covid-19? There’s still so much uncertainty, it’s almost impossible to know. There are people and institutions that urgently need help – and first priority has to go them. But there’s also value in taking a longer-term view in times of turbulence – I gave a talk last week on this topic, and you can see it here: I won’t recap the whole thing, as it’s all there on the video. But here are some of the key points. In the first half, I talk about some personal strategies we can use to think about things. One of the key concepts here is an idea that I raised in my ..read more
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Technological Revolutions and the Governance Gap
The Discipline of Innovation Blog | Tim Kastelle
by Tim Kastelle
3y ago
The Core Problem of Management Today Sur-veil-lance Cap-i-tal-ism, n. 1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3. A rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth, knowledge, and power unprecedented in human history; 4. The foundational framework of a surveillance economy… Shoshana Zuboff – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Th ..read more
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Are You Working On the World’s To-Do List?
The Discipline of Innovation Blog | Tim Kastelle
by Tim Kastelle
3y ago
There are a number of major challenges facing the world today. Poverty, climate risk, war – the list goes on. In 2015, the United Nations released a list they called the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. It was an agenda of actions and targets to reach by 2030. In announcing the SDGs, the UN said: This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement ..read more
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Do The Hard Work
The Discipline of Innovation Blog | Tim Kastelle
by Tim Kastelle
3y ago
I’m not a very good photographer. I love the idea of being a good photographer, but, sadly, I’m not one. The main reason is that when it comes right down to it, I’m not willing to do the hard work. You need to know about shutter speeds, and apertures, and framing, and all kinds of arcane stuff. And it takes a lot of practice. Sometimes, I’m tempted to try to skip the work and just try to get better by buying a really nice camera. But that never works. Me, shot by my friend Ben, who actually has put in the work to be a good photographer. There are a lot of things like this – where we love the ..read more
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The Story Behind The World’s Most Incompetent Drawings
The Discipline of Innovation Blog | Tim Kastelle
by Tim Kastelle
3y ago
Language Warning right at the start! I recently gave a talk at a workshop for the International CFO Forum in Singapore. After it was done, one of the participants came up to me and said: “Can I ask you a question about your slides?” “Sure,” I replied. “By all the objective principles of good slide design, they’re shit. But, they’re REALLY effective. How?” Here’s what I told him. Me, duplicating the pose of my stick figures (Photo by Nicole Hartley) First, I think visually. Even when I’m writing academic papers, I work out the tables and figures first, then write the story of those. I used t ..read more
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Well, No, I am NOT a Natural
The Discipline of Innovation Blog | Tim Kastelle
by Tim Kastelle
3y ago
“I was looking for work that would make my heart sing.” Jamie Ford said that recently at a UQ Business School alumni event as she told us about the path her career has taken. She said that her current role as Head of Customer Experience for Uniting Care Queensland does exactly that. Jamie was one of the people that I interviewed for Design Thinking and Creativity for Innovation which is a free online course – please check it out! One common thread across the people that I interviewed was that nearly all of them described their career path as weird, or unconventional. Mine has been t ..read more
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Do We Need Managers or Management?
The Discipline of Innovation Blog | Tim Kastelle
by Tim Kastelle
3y ago
Note: this was originally posted on Harvard Business Review Blogs, with terrific editing by Sarah Green Carmichael. Maybe you’ve heard the old cliché – if you’ve got “too many chiefs,” your initiative will fail. Every time I hear it, I wonder, “Why can’t everyone be a chief?” For instance, the Second Chance Programme is a group that raises money to help reduce homelessness among women here in Southeast Queensland.  It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. In the early days, a management consultant used the fami ..read more
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Is Your Innovation Problem Really a Strategy Problem?
The Discipline of Innovation Blog | Tim Kastelle
by Tim Kastelle
3y ago
Note: this was originally posted on Harvard Business Review Blogs, with terrific editing by Sarah Green Carmichael. Sometimes, the problem that we think we’re solving isn’t the real problem that we face. I was running a workshop with a multinational engineering firm when I ran into a perfect example of an air sandwich, which illustrates this point.  This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on t ..read more
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