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Why Can’t Big Companies Solve Big Problems?

While large companies are phenomenal at managing complexity, they’re actually quite bad at tackling ambiguity. So how do we face issues like healthcare, immigration, education, defense and economic growth in an increasingly ambiguous world?

5 Ways to Lead with a Future Focused Mindset

Why is it so difficult to focus on the future? Or at the very least, avoid getting blindsided by it? For disrupted companies like Kodak or Blackberry, the problem was clearly not a lack of effort or ability to innovate. As it turns out the problem lies in how we’re all hard-wired to think.

Future Focused: Music Giant UMG Transforms Its Business Model for the Era of Innovation

Universal Music Group is the world leader in music-based entertainment. But it wasn’t a straight line to the top. After a near-death experience, UMG navigated massive market and technological changes. Through a series of bold, future focused initiatives, they succeeded in finding a path to growth, and in reinventing the role of a music label in the twenty-first century.

Worried About the Next Crisis? Let the Last One Be Your Guide.

During times of rapid change, a collective look back will turbocharge your team’s agility and resilience, enabling it to thrive through whatever’s next.

Widespread Empathy: Rewiring Your Corporation for Intuition

The difference between good companies and great companies is not the quality of their ideas. It’s their ability to anticipate and act on the needs of their customers. Widespread empathy is about getting every single person in an organization to have a gut-level intuition for the people who buy their products and services–the folks who really matter.

The Open Empathy Organization

People in organizations with a widespread sense of empathy possess an intuitive vibe for what’s going on in the world that helps them to see new opportunities faster than their competitors.