Management

In this video, I explore one of the four foundations of high performance, productivity, and effectiveness at work - extrinsic and intrinsic incentives.

Workflow S1: Foundations, E1: The Science on Purpose and Performance at Work

In this video, I explore the role that PURPOSE plays when it comes to our performance at work.

Introduction to Work/Flow Podcast

Welcome to the WorkFlow podcast.

Innovation Series: Adam Long, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at UNICO

Adam Long is UNICO’s Chief Information Officer. He has over 27 years’ experience envisioning and delivering software projects and products.

Innovation Series: Sharon Zickovic, Cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer at Wicked Lab

Sharon Zickovic is the cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer at Wicked Lab. Wicked Lab supports multi-stakeholder groups address complex social policy problems (wicked problems).‍

Why You Need To Make Employee Engagement a Priority In Your Business

Employee engagement is one of the best indicators for organizational success. Engaged organizations are more productive, more innovative, and more financially successful than their less engaged counterparts—and if you want to take your business to the next level, focusing on employee engagement is one of the best ways to drive results.

How Delegations of Authority Destroy Innovation and Employee Morale

Delegations of authority might safeguard organizations at risk, but it may come at the cost of innovation and employee fulfilment.

How To Increase Employee Productivity

Kat Boogaard

Let’s talk about employee productivity. How do you feel about the amount of work you and your employees get done each and every day? Are you satisfied with what you’re getting accomplished? Or do you feel like your workplace productivity needs a swift kick in the pants?

What Is Company Culture—And Why Is It So Important?

If you want to take your business to the next level, one of the best ways to do it? Focus on your company’s culture. The culture at your business can have a positive impact on everything, from work environment to productivity to employee morale.

Why Most Team Bonding Activities are a Waste of Time — Online and Off

What people really want is meaningful work and meaningful relationships.

Employers: Beware of the Good Employee Reference

Why a positive review is oftentimes anything but positive.

How to Build Trust with Remote Teams

How can I build trust with my team working remotely? Trust in the workplace essentially refers to our confidence in people’s ability to get things done, as promised.

How to Learn Anything Fast with Overnight Poker Champion, Maria Konnikova

Lessons on Accelerated Learning and Life

Mapping the user journey to design more memorable moments

The year was 2012 and like many young working professionals, I caught the startup itch. Rather than just talking about ideas, I decided to actually execute on one of them.

The Dictator’s Guide: Managing Remote Teams During COVID-19

If you’re the type of leader who likes to micro-manage, oversee every action your employees take and ensure that they have no autonomy or sense of control, then you’re probably feeling a little disoriented by having everybody work from home as a result of your ‘COVID-19 policy’ being activated.

Remote Working and COVID-19: The Revolution We’ve All Been Waiting For?

COVID-19 has had a deleterious effect on our world as we know it.

Culture is What People Do, Not Just What Policies Say

Recently, my company was engaged by a large telecommunications provider to perform an innovation assessment.

10 Quick Tips for Avoiding Distractions at Work

In a world of push notifications, email, instant messaging, and shrinking office space, we’re becoming increasingly distracted at work.

3 Problems with Token ‘Head of Innovation’ Roles

When our car breaks down, we call a mechanic.When our bathroom is flooded, we call a plumber.

Culture Lags Strategy

I recently had James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, on my podcast (below) to talk all about — surprise surprise — habit building.‍

Your Team Size Don’t Impress Me Much

Human beings are social animals.

10 Leaders in Hong Kong share their Corporate Innovation Advice

Hong Kong is currently ranked 16th in the Global Innovation Index and corporate innovation has never been more important in the region than it is now.

Innosight’s Scott Anthony with 35 Lessons and Insights on Corporate Innovation

I recently had Innosight Managing Director Scott Anthony guest on the Future Squared podcast and we riffed on all things corporate innovation, or being an entrepreneur inside a large, established organisation.

Our 9 to 3 Workday Experiment

The 9 to 5 workday is a product of nineteenth-century socialism.

Play Within Your Bankroll to Increase Your Risk Tolerance

In poker, your bankroll represents how much money you’ve set aside exclusively to play.

14 Ways You're Sabotaging Your Organisation

On 17 January 1944, the Office of the Strategic Services of the CIA issued the Simple Sabotage Field Manual.

Drive Innovation with a Culture of Ownership, Not Blame

In the early days of Collective Campus, like most new organisations, we kept ourselves afloat by taking part time jobs on the side and working with a number of small clients who paid us just enough to keep the lights on.

How to Make Better Decisions

Every day we’re tasked with making decisions.

Top 7 Innovation Labs in Australia

Australia is currently ranked number 23 on the Global Innovation Index 2017.

6 of the Worst New Product Failures

Fear of failure is often referred to as the number one enemy of creativity.

Should Innovation Audits Be Mandatory?

The average company lifespan continues to drop. In the mid 20th century the average company lifespan was more than 60 years and this stands at just 15 years today. This is expected to fall further to 10 years by the year 2025.

5 Customer Experience Stories that You Will Tell your Friends About

Here are five stories of companies that know how to surprise and delight their customers.

5 Reasons Corporates Find It Challenging To Innovate

Leaders are realising the importance of culture in enabling innovation but at the same time innovation blockers are still prevalent within organisations. Here are five key factors blocking corporates from innovating.

How to Sell your Idea to Management

Struggling to get sell your innovation idea to management? Developing a pitch is an effective way to communicate your idea and all the details underpinning it.

10 of the biggest Corporate Innovation Programs in Singapore

Singapore is fast growing into an innovation powerhouse. There are ten organisations that are running innovation programs in Singapore that you need to know about.

How to Set Up a Brain Trust

The sign of a healthy innovation culture is one in which its people feel comfortable sharing their ideas, opinions and criticisms, without fear of retribution.

KPIs and Employee Incentives to Encourage Corporate Innovation

Managers are incentivised to deliver on an existing, repeatable business model, not to help discover new ones. So how do we incentivise them to innovate without sacrificing the core business model which is, after all, where we make money today?

The Hard Truth about Corporate Innovation - Obstacles & Challenges

One of Australia’s long running broadcast networks, TEN, went into voluntary administration recently after reporting a $232 million loss. This is yet another sobering reminder that the once mighty will fall unless they begin to challenge their existing business models, despite the fact that it’s where they make all of their money today.

Corporate Startup Partnerships 101

A roadmap to effectively partnering with startups.

Benchmark Your Company's Innovation Maturity

Do you know how well your business is performing when it comes innovation? Would you like to know how to improve your innovation capability?

Design Thinking Is Overrated

Design Thinking is just one piece of the corporate innovation puzzle and it alone is never enough.

Ask for Forgiveness, not Permission

The story of a 3M researcher, $99 purchase orders and a $60B empire.

Top 3 Qualities That Make a Great Innovation Manager

Do you have what it takes to be a great Innovation Manager?

5 Lies Big Firms Tell Themselves About Corporate Innovation

Busting the biggest corporate innovation myths and some tips to counter these common lies

The 5 Funding Traps of Corporate Innovation Projects

In an age where the time between disruptions is getting shorter and the exponential growth of technology threatens the upheaval of almost every industry, certainty is fast becoming a distant memory. Yet, when it comes to deciding which projects to invest in at most large organisations, we often rely on projections and estimates based on assumptions about the same uncertain future. Think of this as the Innovator’s Funding Dilemma, encapsulated by these five common pitfalls of funding corporate innovation projects.

The Hierarchy of Needs for Corporate Innovation

Most of us are familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The theory on psychological health is now almost 70 years purpose rather than just profit, in stark contrast to prior generations, a testament to having already met their other needs.

Forget ROI - Innovation Requires a Different Set of Metrics

Large organisations apply the same metrics and evaluation criteria on potentially disruptive, risky, ‘out of the box’ innovation as they do for incremental improvements and business as usual investment decisions. Clearly this makes no sense.

How To Identify Innovators Amongst Accountants

How do you go about finding and hiring such applicants when your company insists on candidates meeting criteria such as being a certified accountant which tends not to lend itself to right-brained, creative thinking.

Why Big Companies Choose Not To Innovate

More and more companies that were once small and built their reputation on disruptive innovations, are now big, and have other priorities.

How to Improve Employee Morale and Job Satisfaction

How your employees feel about their job, their responsibilities, and your organization as a whole can have a huge impact on your company.

The Scrum Guide

Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. This guide contains the definition of Scrum, including Scrum’s roles, events, artifacts, and the rules that bind them together. This guide is backed by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, developers of scrum.

Kanban Board

The Kanban board gives you an excellent overview of your current work situation. Visualizing work in a team environment simplifies communication and lead to improved effectiveness.

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The Scrum Guide

Kanban Board

The Kanban board gives you an excellent overview of your current work situation. Visualizing work in a team environment simplifies communication and lead to improved effectiveness.

More resources

Why Your Business Should Invest In Internal Communication

Tom Chambers

A poor internal communication strategy can hurt your bottom line.

Workflow S1E5: Values Alignment and Performance at Work

Workflow S1E2: The Real Impact of Incentives at Work

In this video, I explore one of the four foundations of high performance, productivity, and effectiveness at work - extrinsic and intrinsic incentives.

Workflow S1: Foundations, E1: The Science on Purpose and Performance at Work

In this video, I explore the role that PURPOSE plays when it comes to our performance at work.

Introduction to Work/Flow Podcast

Welcome to the WorkFlow podcast.

Innovation Series: Adam Long, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at UNICO

Adam Long is UNICO’s Chief Information Officer. He has over 27 years’ experience envisioning and delivering software projects and products.

Innovation Series: Sharon Zickovic, Cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer at Wicked Lab

Sharon Zickovic is the cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer at Wicked Lab. Wicked Lab supports multi-stakeholder groups address complex social policy problems (wicked problems).‍

Why You Need To Make Employee Engagement a Priority In Your Business

How Delegations of Authority Destroy Innovation and Employee Morale

Delegations of authority might safeguard organizations at risk, but it may come at the cost of innovation and employee fulfilment.

What people really want is meaningful work and meaningful relationships.

Employers: Beware of the Good Employee Reference

Why a positive review is oftentimes anything but positive.

How to Build Trust with Remote Teams

How can I build trust with my team working remotely? Trust in the workplace essentially refers to our confidence in people’s ability to get things done, as promised.

How to Learn Anything Fast with Overnight Poker Champion, Maria Konnikova

Lessons on Accelerated Learning and Life

Mapping the user journey to design more memorable moments

The year was 2012 and like many young working professionals, I caught the startup itch. Rather than just talking about ideas, I decided to actually execute on one of them.

The Dictator’s Guide: Managing Remote Teams During COVID-19

Remote Working and COVID-19: The Revolution We’ve All Been Waiting For?

COVID-19 has had a deleterious effect on our world as we know it.

Culture is What People Do, Not Just What Policies Say

Recently, my company was engaged by a large telecommunications provider to perform an innovation assessment.

10 Quick Tips for Avoiding Distractions at Work

In a world of push notifications, email, instant messaging, and shrinking office space, we’re becoming increasingly distracted at work.

3 Problems with Token ‘Head of Innovation’ Roles

When our car breaks down, we call a mechanic.When our bathroom is flooded, we call a plumber.

Culture Lags Strategy

I recently had James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, on my podcast (below) to talk all about — surprise surprise — habit building.‍

Your Team Size Don’t Impress Me Much

Human beings are social animals.

10 Leaders in Hong Kong share their Corporate Innovation Advice

Hong Kong is currently ranked 16th in the Global Innovation Index and corporate innovation has never been more important in the region than it is now.

Innosight’s Scott Anthony with 35 Lessons and Insights on Corporate Innovation

Our 9 to 3 Workday Experiment

The 9 to 5 workday is a product of nineteenth-century socialism.

Play Within Your Bankroll to Increase Your Risk Tolerance

In poker, your bankroll represents how much money you’ve set aside exclusively to play.

14 Ways You're Sabotaging Your Organisation

On 17 January 1944, the Office of the Strategic Services of the CIA issued the Simple Sabotage Field Manual.

Drive Innovation with a Culture of Ownership, Not Blame

How to Make Better Decisions

Every day we’re tasked with making decisions.

Top 7 Innovation Labs in Australia

Australia is currently ranked number 23 on the Global Innovation Index 2017.

6 of the Worst New Product Failures

Fear of failure is often referred to as the number one enemy of creativity.

Should Innovation Audits Be Mandatory?

5 Customer Experience Stories that You Will Tell your Friends About

Here are five stories of companies that know how to surprise and delight their customers.

5 Reasons Corporates Find It Challenging To Innovate

How to Sell your Idea to Management

Struggling to get sell your innovation idea to management? Developing a pitch is an effective way to communicate your idea and all the details underpinning it.

10 of the biggest Corporate Innovation Programs in Singapore

Singapore is fast growing into an innovation powerhouse. There are ten organisations that are running innovation programs in Singapore that you need to know about.

How to Set Up a Brain Trust

The sign of a healthy innovation culture is one in which its people feel comfortable sharing their ideas, opinions and criticisms, without fear of retribution.

KPIs and Employee Incentives to Encourage Corporate Innovation

The Hard Truth about Corporate Innovation - Obstacles & Challenges

Corporate Startup Partnerships 101

A roadmap to effectively partnering with startups.

Benchmark Your Company's Innovation Maturity

Do you know how well your business is performing when it comes innovation? Would you like to know how to improve your innovation capability?

Design Thinking Is Overrated

Design Thinking is just one piece of the corporate innovation puzzle and it alone is never enough.

Ask for Forgiveness, not Permission

The story of a 3M researcher, $99 purchase orders and a $60B empire.

Top 3 Qualities That Make a Great Innovation Manager

Do you have what it takes to be a great Innovation Manager?

5 Lies Big Firms Tell Themselves About Corporate Innovation

Busting the biggest corporate innovation myths and some tips to counter these common lies

The 5 Funding Traps of Corporate Innovation Projects

The Hierarchy of Needs for Corporate Innovation

Forget ROI - Innovation Requires a Different Set of Metrics

How To Identify Innovators Amongst Accountants

Why Big Companies Choose Not To Innovate

More and more companies that were once small and built their reputation on disruptive innovations, are now big, and have other priorities.

How to Improve Employee Morale and Job Satisfaction