Category: Ideas

Ideas, Podcast

PBTO50: Understanding Why We do, What We do with Dilip Soman

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/50_PBTO50__Creating_Choice_Architecture_that_Works_for_You.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSS Who is on the show: In this episode we host, Dr. Dilip Soman. He is a behaviour scientist and the author of the book  The Last Mile, and is a Professor of Marketing and holds the Corus Chair in Communications Strategy. His researches behavioural economics and its applications to consumer wellbeing, marketing and policy. He is also the director of the India Innovation Institute at the University of Toronto. He works with ideas42 and serves as advisor to a number of welfare organizations. Why is she on the show: In his […]

Ideas, Innovation

What Drives Innovation

Every leader wants to build a culture of innovation in their respective organisations. There is enough written about how one can go about building a culture of innovation. I have myself written about it as below: Everyone wants to innovate but no one wants to fail, How do you innovate “Innovation”, What stops Us from Creating Breakthrough Innovations, Building a Culture of Innovation by Creating A Structure for Unstructured Innovation and many more. As atoms are the most fundamental unit of matter, imagination, more importantly, the ability to imagine is the most fundamental unit for all innovations. The ability to imagine is […]

Ideas, Strategy

How to Get Better at Dealing with Change

We live in an age where we see accelerating change all around us. Large, extremely successful businesses go bankrupt in a matter of years, if not quarters; companies with billion dollar evaluations are born in the matter of years; as consumers, there is something new that is becoming a rage almost every week. Change is all around us. Whether we like it or not, we will have to deal with change – in our personal lives as well as in our professional lives. The question then is the following: Do we embrace change and benefit from it or resist change […]

Ideas, Leadership

What The World Needs Today More than Anything Else – Hope

We live in a time and age where there is hate all around… We live in an age where its easier to pick a fight than to make a friend… We live in an age where we are connected online, but alone offline… We live in an age where NEWS is neither new nor true… We live in an age where recognition is bought and not earned… We live in an age where its easier to find extremists than a pacifist… We live in an age where we are free to say what we want, with no control on who […]

Ideas, Leadership

Characteristics of A Great Employee Recognition Program

Organisational culture is turning out to be the last competitive advantage for businesses. One of the most important aspects of great organisational culture is engaged employees. Many studies have indicated the state of employee engagement and it doesn’t look good. One of the ways that organisations can increase employee engagement is by ensuring that they are engaged with their employees and recognise & celebrate good work. It is important to have a program for employee recognition that works. Some key characteristics of such a program are as follows: Catch them Doing something right: One of the habits that Sir Ken […]