Today, an interesting report was quietly launched at Skoll World Forum which I’ve been attending. SustainAblity one of my favourite consulting firms and think-tank, is increasingly referring to something they call Mindset 3.0. Just as software morphs through successive generations, 1.0, 2.0 and so on, the business case for engaging with sustainability challenges [...]

They say you learn the most when your worldview is being turned upside down. Innovation and learning happens when chaos meets order. When we let go of the status quo, say no to more of the same, and give ourselves over to something new, something unfamiliar. We need just enough order to give us [...]

Speaking to Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunnus, last year, about his work and ideas for the future, he disclosed that the trick to success is to closely observe what everyone else is doing, and then do something totally contradictory. He set up the Grameen Bank because he was convinced that it was, in [...]

Silo-thinking is a big barrier to change today. Working with the best new ideas coming through right now requires a new level of visibility. My sense is that we are witnessing ever more cross-pollination and horizontal integration across previously disparate agendas. And while this is happening throughout society, we spot it in some places before [...]

Nothing helps us focus on the map better than knowing that there’s a pot of gold at the X. The X Prize Foundation is all about focusing our attention on innovation, and through high-profile competitions they’ve stimulated a huge wave of private enterprise in relation to space travel, genomics and automobility. It is [...]