Nurturing and scaling a purposeful innovation culture while building effective leadership.
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To go even further on the topic of team introspection, I thought I’d share some guidelines or tips to help you and your team. The challenges we want to overcome are: to create trust and dispel fears of negative consequences in order to allow an open and truthful sharing,
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Last week I started to share about the differences between team debriefing and team introspection [https://www.icopilots.com/team-debriefing-vs-team-introspection/]. The former being quite straightforward and directly connected to an observable performance as the latter being a deeper exploration of more relational issues in an organisation or team. Both are
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I have been wanting for a long time to share about various team practices that I have found useful over the years working with different teams, from startup co-founders to senior corporate managers of large industrial companies. And my views have also evolved over the years, moving from very masculine
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37signals is a software company founded 23 years ago in Chicago. It encountered a huge success with a team organization app named Basecamp (which they changed their company name to before reverting recently to 37signals), made some splash with Hey! their web-based email, stirred the App Store controversy, and many
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On 6th of May 2022, Meaningful Design Agency [https://www.meaningful.fr/] has invited me to share my experience and tips (in French) about the feminine side of innovation [https://www.icopilots.com/feminine-values-in-uncertain-times/]. Here is the translation of what they shared in their newsletter to introduce the talk: >
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I've helped design, worked with, visited, and oftentimes also rebooted many intrapreneurship programs since 2007. The most central and undiscussed design choice for these programs is that one employee (or a small team) will be their project's internal leader. With some common-sense rules and as light
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I often speak about the automotive market because it's in such turmoil that from an innovator's perspective, everything is exciting about it. Every part of the business model is changing (or should be), the underlying technologies and manufacturing processes are changing, what customers need is changing,
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A few years ago, Norway decided that of the new 8,000 cars sold yearly, not a single one should be using fossil fuel by 2025. They might make it so. EV Sales Hit Record in Norway With Fossil Engines Soon GoneElectric car sales hit a new monthly record in
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Amazon is closing most of its physical stores to double down on Amazon Fresh and WholeFood brick and mortar locations. Amazon is closing all 68 of its Books, 4-Star, and Pop Up physical storesAmazon ends most of its retail experimentsThe VergeChaim Gartenberg [https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/2/22958745/
Technology
Cracking the luxury market in China for western companies has always been an uphill battle. Hyundai Takes a Second Run at China With Luxury Genesis BrandHyundai Motor Co. is far from the top automobile brand of choice in China but its luxury-car division is seeking to change all that with
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Google is politely killing its gaming business known as Stadia. This is only one venture among many that Google had to switch off or ‘demote’ as corporate lingo would say. Report: Google Quietly Ditching StadiaThe service has been demoted within Google and will instead power experiences for other companiesKotakuThe A.
Scaling culture change in the industry is a complex process. Everyone understands that this requires time until you need to come up with quick wins nonetheless. A few years ago I was already sharing about a few key ingredients to building a mentoring culture [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/what-it-takes-to-build-a-mentoring-culture-that-delivers] and