Free learning videos (1 of 6)
The first in a series of six open-access videos to help you create a future-fit culture
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.” — Sir Francis Bacon (1625) 1
How can you go about creating the kind of future-fit culture of innovation, agility, and adaptiveness your organisation needs if it’s to thrive in an increasingly uncertain and unpredictable world?
This is the first in a series of six short, free access videos to help you answer that question in ways that work in your unique organisational circumstances.
The videos will be relevant to:
practitioners engaged in catalysing cultural transformation
aspiring future-fit culture catalysts
executives championing, sponsoring, and supporting cultural transformation
Video 1 - Encouraging diversity of perspectives but avoiding fragmentation (1 min 33s)
Diversity in people’s perspectives, thinking, and outlook is the lifeblood of innovation, agility, and adaptiveness.
The challenge on the flip side is that diversity also significantly increases the risk of misunderstandings, mistakes, and missed opportunities.
The video below sets out the nature of the challenge, and its general solution.
From essay, Of Innovations (1625). As collected and translated in The Works of Francis Bacon (1765), Vol. 1, 479.