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Successful innovations are built on what exists, not from the blue
When we review innovations like Uber, Airbnb and Amazon (e-commerce), there is always the temptation to think that such enterprises represent....
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Successful innovations are built on what exists, not from the blue
Why you don't have to own ‘stuff’ to scale a business
Companies have always been designed to grow in order to take advantage of economies of scale.
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Why you don't have to own ‘stuff’ to scale a business
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Why success in life is more random than you thought
Can a video of a group of young men and women dancing with food on their plates trigger a global sensation?
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Why success in life is more random than you thought
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Overcoming collective blindness: Lessons from 9/11 terror attack
Collective blindness occurs when people hired into an organisation share the same characteristics like intelligence, psychological profile and culture
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Overcoming collective blindness: Lessons from 9/11 terror attack
Why you must dig your own job in today's workplace
Rather than wait to be told what to do, today more than ever, organisations need employees who will dig their own jobs.
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Why you must dig your own job in today's workplace
The illusion of broken systems in organisations
There is no such thing as dysfunction in any organisation, each is aligned to achieve the results it currently gets.
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
The illusion of broken systems in organisations
How to unleash the power of corporate innovation
No effort should be spared to understand real customer needs and problems.
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
How to unleash the power of corporate innovation
Exploit constraints to innovate
Questions that foster new ways of thinking and unlock change.
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Exploit constraints to innovate
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From mystery to heuristics; how we develop knowledge
The second stage of knowledge development is when we start developing general rules of thumb about what works and what doesn’t.
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
From mystery to heuristics; how we develop knowledge
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Kenyan hospitals are sitting ducks for digital disruption
If you desire to be an innovation catalyst and a creative problem solver, then you might want to become what management practices writer...
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Kenyan hospitals are sitting ducks for digital disruption
Disrupted? Try converting your razor into blade
What happens when your blade becomes easily available almost at zero cost to the consumer? This is what happened to the music industry.
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Disrupted? Try converting your razor into blade
Of Mediocristan and Extrimistan business worlds
In the Mediocristan world, you would aim to charge a standard price to get as many people as possible to spend on your product.
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Of Mediocristan and Extrimistan business worlds
Only the paranoid survive, so let Ndegwa be
Only the paranoid survive, and Safaricom's CEO has every right to be
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Only the paranoid survive, so let Ndegwa be
Why 10,000-hour rule is no guarantee to success in business
Author Malcolm Gladwell popularised the 10,000-hour rule in which he argued that the key to achieving world-class expertise...
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Why 10,000-hour rule is no guarantee to success in business
Technology disrupts, but it also creates new prospects
We used to live in a linear world where progress was incremental, sequential and straightforward.
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Technology disrupts, but it also creates new prospects
Potent mix of experience and new voices good for business growth
Standard Group Plc CEO Orlando Lyomu wondered recently during an all-hands meeting whether veteran managers could generate fresh...
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Potent mix of experience and new voices good for business growth
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Would you rather be a fox or hedgehog?
Philosopher Isaiah Berlin divided thinkers throughout history into two categories: those who pursue a single big idea ...
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Would you rather be a fox or hedgehog?
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Key lessons from Jeff Bezos’ last letter to shareholders
After Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as the CEO of Amazon after 27 years in charge earlier in the year...
By Peter Opondo 3 years ago
Key lessons from Jeff Bezos’ last letter to shareholders
The one thing that convinces a bank to loan your business cash
Many critics will tell you that it is impossible to obtain unsecured business lines of credit without the use of personal guarantees.
By Sospeter Opondo 10 years ago
The one thing that convinces a bank to loan your business cash
How futurism offers the antidote to chaos
Futurism is the process of discovering what will change our world, analysing its potential impact on specific activities, and then communicating to stakeholders or colleagues what lies ahead.
By Sospeter Opondo 10 years ago
How futurism offers the antidote to chaos
Why recycling is the new green business frontier
Recycling is not just a matter of recovering recyclable material, it is a total economic system.
By Sospeter Opondo 10 years ago
Why recycling is the new green business frontier
The insurance industry needs to weather climate change
Let us suspend debate over climate change and simply look at the reality of today’s weather: it’s changing, and not for the better.
By Sospeter Opondo 10 years ago
The insurance industry needs to weather climate change
Essential qualities of promotable employees
One of the most common questions asked by an employee of his or her company is, “What can I do to get promoted?”
By Sospeter Opondo 11 years ago
Essential qualities of promotable employees
Why IT directors need a digital makeover
Information technology and strategy are now so much a part of each other that senior managers are — or should be — information officers.
By BY SOSPETER OPONDO 11 years ago
Why IT directors need a digital makeover
Win-win is for loser
Nearly every negotiating book ever written takes a win-win approach to agreements.
By BY SOSPETER OPONDO 11 years ago
Win-win is for loser
Why voters might make Ruto one-term president
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