An old story tells of a young man who keeps hearing about a wonderful tailor, Zumbach, whose suits can make anyone look handsome and stylish. One day the man goes to Zumbach and asks him to make a suit.  So Zumbach takes his measurements and tells him to come back in a week.
A week later […]

As the global economy flattens out the advantage of externally-based strategies, corporations are switching to approaches which maximize creativity and innovation to provide new streams of economic growth.[i] Yet the business world is trapped by a set of Cartesian principles which closed the door on the mind 300 hundred years ago and then bricked it […]

The unfrozenmind quadrant is based on a psychological principle that governs learning: that experience is organised into pre established patterns. And because experience is conditioned, we can train it. It follows that an executive’s potential is determined by the level of training and mastery of the pre established patterns that organise their experience. Unfrozenmind puts […]

The golden thread running through the landmark theories of leadership, strategy, performance, innovation and organisational design for the last 20 to 30 years is the understanding of change and its relationship to the mind. Or, As Otto Scharmer puts it more succinctly, “The blind spot in business is not the WHAT, or the HOW, it’s […]

Ideas by definition are dangerous. And yet the process of business Innovation seems unable to deal with the fact that it is the way we think, our mental set, which determines whether creating new ideas gets a look in or not.
James M. Utterback (Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation) outlines that the success of radical innovation […]