The delight in reinventing the wheel
Just got a good little video from a dear friend, revealing the last insight into innovation success: It’s all about culture!! It amazes me how we reinvent the wheel with the greatest of enthusiasm… around every 15 years the great revelation regarding the secret success of innovation is revealed: Culture, Hurrah :-) A shame so little seems to happen about it. Well, a shame perhaps, but also understandable! Just trying to find a picture for ‘culture’ proves to be a challenge
Not wrong, not bad, just different
Yesterday I had the opportunity of spending time with two very remarkable people, one Canadian and one Dutch, both shared their struggle with engaging with Europeans, the British in particular, and Americans respectively with me ! For one the severe challenging of his idea which was perceived as attack was upsetting, for the other is was the fierce competitiveness of the Americans she had problems with. It occurred to me that neither behaviour is driven by negative intentions
